Albert-Auguste Fauvel (7 November 1851, in

Cherbourg-en-Cotentin Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (, ; Norman: ''Tchidbouo'') is a port city in the department of Manche, Normandy, northwestern France, established on 1 January 2016.Chinese alligator The Chinese alligator (; ), also known as the Yangtze alligator (), China alligator, or historically the muddy dragon, is a crocodilian endemic to China. It and the American alligator (''A. mississippiensis'') are the only living species in th ...

. In 1872 he joined the

Chinese Maritime Customs Service The Chinese Maritime Customs Service was a Chinese governmental tax collection agency and information service from its founding in 1854 until it split in 1949 into services operating in the Republic of China on Taiwan, and in the People's Republ ...

Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...

. Later on, he was based in

Yantai Yantai, formerly known as Chefoo, is a coastal prefecture-level city on the Shandong Peninsula in northeastern Shandong province of the People's Republic of China. Lying on the southern coast of the Bohai Strait, Yantai borders Qingdao ...

, from where he spent several years investigating the natural history of

Shandong province Shandong is a coastal province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural and religious center ...

. In 1877 he relocated to

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

, and in 1882–84 was stationed in

Hankou Hankou, alternately romanized as Hankow (), was one of the three towns (the other two were Wuchang and Hanyang) merged to become modern-day Wuhan city, the capital of the Hubei province, China. It stands north of the Han and Yangtze Rivers w ...

. Afterwards, he served as ''inspecteur des services'' of the

Messageries Maritimes ''Messageries Maritimes'' was a French ship transport, merchant shipping company. It was originally created in 1851 as ''Messageries nationales'', later called ''Messageries impériales'', and from 1871, ''Compagnie des messageries maritimes'', ca ...

in Paris.

Selected works

* "The province of Shantung: its geography, natural history &c." (published in English, 1875). * "Trip of a naturalist to the Chinese Far East" (published in English, 1876). * "The wild silk-worms of the province of Shan-tung" (published in English, 1877). * "Alligators in China: their history, description and identification" (published in English, 1879). * "Unpublished documents on the history of the Seychelles Islands anterior to 1810" (published in English, 1909).OCLC WorldCat
(published works)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fauvel, Albert-Auguste 1851 births 1909 deaths People from Cherbourg-Octeville French naturalists French zoologists