Georges Pouchet (1833-1894) - French doctor and zoologist, son of Felix Archimedes Pouchet .
| Georges Poucher | |
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| fr. Charles Henri Georges Pouchet | |
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| Date of Birth | February 26, 1833 |
| Place of Birth | Rouen |
| Date of death | March 29, 1894 (61 years old) |
| Place of death | Paris |
| A country | France |
| Scientific field | Comparative anatomy |
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation " CHGPouchet " . List of such taxa on the IPNI website Personal page on IPNI website |
Biography
Since 1851, he has been a preparator under his father, and since 1856 - “aide naturaliste” of the Rouen Natural History Cabinet. In 1864, he opened a course of normal and pathological histology at the same private histological laboratory in Paris. In 1870 he participated in the war as a doctor. Since 1875 he was a supernumerary professor of physiology at the Sorbonne, then at a higher normal school and, finally, in the department of comparative anatomy at the Paris Museum. Subsequently, he was the director of the zoological station in Konkarno .
Numerous works of Pouchet deal with the anatomy and physiology of animals and humans; the most important of them are: Vielheit der Menschenrassen (1850), Histologie humaine (1864 and 1878), a number of works on blood (1870–82), color and pigment changes in fish, amphibians and crustaceans; comparative anatomical studies of the edentulous and cetaceans, for which he had to travel to Lapland , the Faroe Islands , Svalbard , Iceland , Jan Mayen , the Azores and North America; studies of Noctiluca and Dinoflagellatae ; studies of plankton, currents and sea temperature; finally, a series of works on the history of biology, of which the most important is “Biologie aristotélique” (1885).
Sources
- Pouchet, Georges // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.