Hercule Nicolet (18 January 1801

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– 16 September 1872) born Louis-Ami-Hercule Nicolet, was a

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, natural history illustrator, librarian at ''

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'' from 1861 to 1870, and

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who specialized in

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and

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. Hercule Nicolet was the son of Bénédict-Alphonse Nicolet (1743–1807). He was the business partner of Jean Coulin (1822–1883) in the lithographic firm of Hercule "Nicolet and Coulin fils", pressing the plates for ''Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchâtel'' co-edited by

Louis Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he recei ...

and many other geological and natural history works. He wrote ''Recherches pour Servir á l'Histoire des Podurelles.'' ''Nouv. Mém. Soc. Helvet. Sci. Nat''., 6, pp. 1–88 (1842) and "Essai sur une classification des insectes aptères, de l'ordre des Thysanoures" (Séance du 25 Mars 1846) in the ''Annales de la Société Entomologique de France'', 2e Série, Tome V, pp. 335–395 (1847). He was a Member of the

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References

*Bonnet, P. 1945: ''Bibliographia Araneorum''. Toulouse 35 *Muñoz Cuevas, A. 2006: Hercule Nicolet ''Bol. Soc. Ent. Aragon. , Zaragoza'' 36: 455-458 455-458 {{DEFAULTSORT:Nicolet, Hercule Swiss entomologists 1801 births 1872 deaths