studied biology and became a zoologist, professor at the Lyon faculty of sciences
France
Austin Hobart (1880-1xxx): Ophiurans of the Philippine seas (1922) ; Cynthia Ahearn: Philippine brittlestars (1922) ; Theodore Lyman (1833-1897) ; Expédition du Siboga: Ophiures (published 1904/05) ; 1st (1903-05) & 2nd (1908-10) French Antartic expedition, published 1906 & 1912 by Jean Charcot ;
Indian Museum, Calcutta (cat. Échinides,1914) ; Swedish South-pole expedition: Astéries&ophiures (1923); U.S.Nat.Museum (1914) ; Ministère d'Instr.
Prince Albert I of Monaco ; Clément Vaney, Sir Douglas Mawson et al. in India ; official photographer to the Australian Antarctic Expedition James Francis Hurley ;
zoological, geographical, and experimental autochrome photography, esp. accompanying expeditions
http://brittlestars.wordpress.com/
www.autochromes.culture.fr/index.php?id=325&L=1
Caroline Fieschi: L’illustration photographique des thèses de science en France (1880-1909), in: Bibliothèque de l'école des Chartes 158 (2000): 223-45 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; R. Koehler: Application de la photographie aux sciences naturelles (Paris 1893) ;
Mainly known as zoologist, eminent specialist of echinoderms & professor at the Lyon faculty of sciences; also active in India, Australia, South-pole, etc. ;
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