Émile Deplanche, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Émile Deplanche

French naturalist

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1824

Place of Birth: Argentan, Normandy, France

Date of Death: 31-Mar-1875

Profession: naturalist, zoologist, botanist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Émile Deplanche

  • Émile Deplanche (22 June 1824 in Argentan – 30 March 1874) was a French physician and naturalist. He studied medicine and zoology in Caen.
  • In 1854 he served as a surgeon in the Crimean War, and later the same year travelled as a surgeon to Cayenne, Guyane.
  • Here he distinguished himself as a physician, dealing with a yellow fever epidemic that had ravaged the colony (1855).
  • While in Guyane, he collected numerous zoological and botanical specimens.
  • After spending a period of recovery time in France, he embarked on a ship to Tahiti, where he collected malacological and ornithological specimens.In 1858 he travelled to New Caledonia, where with botanist Eugène Vieillard, he explored little-known regions of the island.
  • The following year, he departed the colony with a large collection of natural history specimens — birds from the expedition were later studied by ornithologists Jules Verreaux and Marc Athanase Parfait Oeillet Des Murs.
  • After his return to France, he worked on "Essais sur la Nouvelle Caledonie", a book co-authored with Vieillard, and first published in 1863.
  • Subsequently, he returned to New Caledonia with Vieillard, where in Noumea, the pair spit company, with Deplanche journeying to Lifou in the Loyalty Islands.
  • Because of sickness, he returned to France in March 1867.Deplanche was a chevalier in the Legion d'honneur and a correspondent-member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.
  • With phycologist Sébastien René Lenormand, he was co-author of "Catalogue des plantes recueillies à Cayenne" (Catalog of plants collected in Cayenne, 1858).

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