D'Orbigny (other)
Alcide d'Orbigny (1802–1857) was a French naturalist and paleontologist who made contributions in zoology, geology, anthropology, and botany. d'Orbigny may also refer to: *Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny was a French botanist and geologist specializing in the Tertiary of France. He was the younger brother of French naturalist and South American explorer, Alcide d'Orbigny. At the National Museum of Natural History ... (1806–1876), French botanist and geologist * Henri d'Orbigny (1845-1915), French architect and entomologist * D'Orbigny (meteorite) See also * Orbigny (other) {{dab, surname Surnames of French origin ...
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Alcide D'Orbigny
Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology (including malacology), palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology. D'Orbigny was born in Couëron ( Loire-Atlantique), the son of a ship's physician and amateur naturalist. The family moved to La Rochelle in 1820, where his interest in natural history was developed while studying the marine fauna and especially the microscopic creatures that he named " foraminiferans". In Paris he became a disciple of the geologist Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier (1777–1861) and Georges Cuvier. All his life, he would follow the theory of Cuvier and stay opposed to Lamarckism. South American era D'Orbigny travelled on a mission for the Paris Museum, in South America between 1826 and 1833. He visited Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, and returned to France with an ...
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Charles Henry Dessalines D'Orbigny
Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny was a French botanist and geologist specializing in the Tertiary of France. He was the younger brother of French naturalist and South American explorer, Alcide d'Orbigny. At the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, d'Orbigny identified many of the flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ... species returned to France from his brother's natural history collecting journeys through South America. References Botanists with author abbreviations 19th-century French botanists 1806 births 1876 deaths Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery {{France-botanist-stub ...
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Henri D'Orbigny
Henri-Joseph d'Orbigny (16 May 1845, Paris – 29 June 1915, Paris) was a French architect and entomologist, son of the traveller and paleontologist Alcide d'Orbigny (1802-1857). From 1864 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he was a pupil of Honoré Daumet (1826-1911). As an architect he built the Musée d'Orbigny-Bernon in La Rochelle. From 1887 to 1889, he was a member of the ''Société des amis des monuments parisiens''. From the age of 50, he devoted his time to entomology, researching beetles, in particular scarab beetles. His best known written work was ''Synopsis des Onthophagides d'Afrique'' (1913), published in the ''Annales de la Société Entomologique de France''. Orbigny was a member of the ''Société entomologique de France The Société entomologique de France, or French Entomological Society, is devoted to the study of insects. The society was founded in 1832 in Paris, France. The society was created by eighteen Parisian entomologists on January 31, ...
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D'Orbigny (meteorite)
D'Orbigny meteorite was found near Buenos Aires, Argentina in September 1979. It is the largest angrite found to date. History D'Orbigny was found by a farm worker who hit it while plowing a corn field. Not realising its significance he gave it to the landowner who stored it for about twenty years until reading an article on meteorites prompted him to have it analysed. fragments of the meteorite were on sale for /g. Mineralogy Classification See also Glossary of meteoritics This is a glossary of terms used in meteoritics, the science of meteorites. # * 2 Pallas – an asteroid from the asteroid belt and one of the likely parent bodies of the CR meteorites. * 4 Vesta – second-largest asteroid in the asteroid b ... References {{Meteorites by name Meteorites found in Argentina ...
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Orbigny (other)
Orbigny may refer to: * One of the abbreviations used for Alcide d'Orbigny in biological citations * Orbigny, Indre-et-Loire, a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in France * Orbigny-au-Mont, a commune in the Haute-Marne department in France * Orbigny-au-Val, a commune in the Haute-Marne department in France See also *d'Orbigny (other) *Arbigny Arbigny () is a commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. Geography Arbigny is some 20 km north of Mâcon and 40 km south by south-east of Chalon-sur-Saône. The commune can be accessed by ...