Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix
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Charles Henri Frédéric Dumont de Sainte-Croix (April 27, 1758 – January 8, 1830) was a French zoologist. A lawyer by trade, he was also an enthusiastic amateur ornithologist.[1] Between 1817 and 1818, he described a number of Javanese bird species discovered by Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour;[1] he also contributed articles on ornithology to the Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, edited and published from 1816–1830 by F. G. Levrault.[2]
Dumont de Sainte-Croix's daughter, Clémence married René-Primevère Lesson, a surgeon and noted French naturalist.[3]
His younger brother André Dumont was elected to the Convention during the French Revolution.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Stresemann, p. 117
- ^ F. G. Levrault, ed. (1816–1830). Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Paris: Levrault. http://books.google.com/books?id=xx8AAAAAQAAJ&pg=PT6&dq=%22Charles+henri+frederic+Dumont+de+Sainte-Croix%22+%22Dictionnaire+des+sciences+naturelles%22.
- ^ Stresemann, p. 138
- Stresemann, Erwin (1975). Ornithology from Aristotle to the Present. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674644859.
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