Léopold de Folin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French zoologist
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Place of Birth: Tournus, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
About Léopold de Folin
- Léopold de Folin (Alexandre Guillaume Léopold de, Marquis de Folin, 28 August 1817 – 5 July 1896) was an author, oceanographer, malacologist and early founder (1871) of the collections which were to become the Musée de la mer (sea museum) in Biarritz, FranceDe Folin wrote on Caecidae for the reports published following the Challenger expedition of 1872-1876. With Henri Milne-Edwards's son Alphonse, de Folin carried out a survey of the Gulf of Gascony.
- He worked on board the Travailleur (a paddle-wheel aviso) in 1880, and on board the Talisman in 1883, for trips to the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Islands and the Azores.De Folin also described the genus Oceanida of sea snails in the family Eulimidae.
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