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JEAN VICTOR AUDOUIN (1797-1841)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 898 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUDOUIN (1797-1841)  ,
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French naturalist, was
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born at
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Paris on the 27th of
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April 1797 . He began the study of
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law, but was diverted from it by his strong predilection for natural
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history, and entered the medical profession . In 1824 he was appointed assistant to P . A .
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Latreille (1762–1833) in the entomological
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chair at the Paris museum of natural history, and succeeded him in 1833 . In 1838 he became a member of' the
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Academy of Sciences . He died in Paris on the 9th of
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November 1841 . His
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principal
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work, Histoire
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des insectes nuisibles d la
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vigne (1842), was completed after his
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death by
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Henry Milne-
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Edwards and (mile
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Blanchard . His papers mostly appeared in the Annales des sciences naturelles, which, with A . T .
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Brongniart and J . B .

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Dumas, he founded in 1824, and in the proceedings of the Societe Entomologique de
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France, of which he was one of the founders in 1832 .

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