Pierre André Latreille.

Pierre André Latreille ( November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 41 days remaining. Events 1200-1899 1272 - Following Henry III of Englands death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England. 1407 - A solemn truce between John... November 20, Events Neolin begins to preach. January 4 - Britain declares war on Spain & Naples July 17 - Catherine II becomes empress of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia. Empress Go-Sakuramachi ascends to the throne of Japan British East India Company seizes the port city of Manila, Philippines... 1762 - February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 328 days remaining, 329 in leap years. Events 300-1899 337 - Julius I is elected pope. 1778 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed... February 6, Events January 3, Britain seizes control of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. June 6, US President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train. May 11, French-American farmhand Antoine le Blanc murders family of three. September 29, the infant Isabella II becomes Queen of Spain... 1833) was a The French Republic or France ( French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. France is a democracy organised as a... French Entomology is the scientific study of insects. Insects have many kinds of interactions with humans and other forms of life on earth, so it is an important specialty within biology; unlike many other fields however, entomologists include both persons studying insects for their own sake, and those employed by commercial... entomologist. His works describing Orders Subclass Apterygota Symphypleona - globular springtails Subclass Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) Subclass Dicondylia Monura - extinct Thysanura (common bristletails) Subclass Pterygota Diaphanopteroidea - extinct Palaeodictyoptera - extinct Megasecoptera - extinct Archodonata - extinct Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass Neoptera Blattodea (cockroaches) Mantodea (mantids) Isoptera (termites) Zoraptera Grylloblattodea Dermaptera (earwigs) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets... insects assigned many of the insect A taxon (plural taxa) is an element of a taxonomy, e.g. in the scientific classification in biology. For example, in biology, the family Hominidae is one taxon, as is the genus Homo and the species Homo sapiens. Taxa form a hierarchical scheme, each being broken down into subtaxa. In... taxa still in use today.

Latreille was born into a humble family of Brive-la-Gaillarde is a commune of France. it is a sous_préfecture of the Corrèze département. Population (1999): 49,141. History The commune was named Brive until 1919, when it was remaned Brive-la-Gaillarde. Miscellaneous Brive-la-Gaillarde was the birthplace of: Guillaume Dubois (1656_1723), cardinal... Brives-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze is a département in the center of France. It is also the surname of the infamous Jacques Corrèze. History Corrèze was one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It includes part of the... Corrèze, and in Events The term Thoroughbred was first used in the United States in an advertisement in a Kentucky gazette to describe a New Jersey stallion called Pilgarlick . January 18 - Third Pacific expedition of Capt. James Cook, with ships HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery, first view Oahu then Kauai in... 1778 entered the college Lemoine in The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. Paris is the capital city of France, as well as the capital of the Île-de-France région, whose territory encompasses Paris and its suburbs. The city of Paris proper is also a dé... Paris. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest A priest or priestess is a holy man or woman who takes an officiating role in worship of any religion, with the distinguishing characteristic of offering sacrifices. Priests have been known since the earliest times and in the simplest societies (see shaman and oracle). There are priests... priest in 1786 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). Events May 21 - Trial of the Necklace affair ends in Paris August 8 - Mont Blanc was climbed for the first time by Dr. Michael-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat. September 2 – Hurricane in England Choctaw Treaty Chickasaw... 1786 and then went back to Brives, where he spent all of his free time studying insects. In 1788 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). Events January 1 - First edition of The Times, previously The Daily Universal Register, was published. January 2 - Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 4th U.S. state. January 9 - Connecticut ratifies the United States Constitution... 1788 he returned to Paris and became active in the scientific community there, his Memoire sur les mutilles decouvertes en France gaining him admission to the Society for Natural History.

As a priest with conservative leanings, the The period of the French Revolution in the history of France covers the years between 1789 and 1799, in which democrats and republicans overthrew the absolute monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring. While France would oscillate among republic, empire, and monarchy for 75 years... French Revolution made his situation uncomfortable; he left Paris, and was later imprisoned at City motto: Lilia sola regunt lunam undas castra leonem. ( Latin: Only the fleur-de-lis rule over the moon, the waves, the castle, and the lion) City proper ( commune) Région Aquitaine Département Gironde (33) Mayor Hugues Martin ( UMP) (since 2004) Area 49.36 km² Population... Bordeaux. In 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. (see link for calendar) Events February 1 - The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York March 9 - Widow Joséphine de Beauharnais marries General Napoléon Bonaparte. March 30 - Carl Gauss obtained conditions for the constructibility by... 1796 he published Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposes dans un ordre naturel at Brives.

In 1798 he was given the task of arranging the entomological collection at the recently organized Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. Paris is the capital city of France, as well as the capital of the Île-de-France région, whose territory encompasses Paris and its suburbs. The city of Paris proper is also a dé... Paris; in 1814 he became a member of the The French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at the forefront of scientific developments in Europe in the 17th and... French Academy of Sciences (succeeding Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756 - 1814) was a French entomologist. He was the author of Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Insectes (1808) and Le Voyage dans lEmpire Othoman, lÉgypte et la Perse (1807). He was a close friend of Johan Christian Fabricius and a patron of Pierre André Latreille... G. A. Olivier), and in 1821 he was made a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor The Légion dhonneur (in Legion of Honor (AmE) or Legion of Honour (ComE)) is an Order of Chivalry awarded by the President of France. First instituted by Emperor Napoleon I on May 19, 1802, it is one of the most prestigious French awards and... Legion of Honor. He was professor of Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. History of zoology Main articles: History of zoology (before Darwin), History of zoology (since Darwin) Branches of biology relevant to zoology The original branches of zoology established in the late 19th century such... zoology in the veterinary school at Alfort near Paris, and in 1830, when the chair of zoology of Invertebrate is a term coined by Chevalier de Lamarck to describe any animal without a backbone or vertebra, like insects, squids and worms. He divided them into two groups, the Insecta and the Vermes. However, the invertebrates are not a coherent group of animals, as many are much more closely... invertebrates at the Museum was divided after the death of Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (August 1, 1744 - December 28, 1829) was a major 19th century naturalist, who was one of the first to use the term biology in its modern sense.¹ Lamarck is remembered today mainly in connection with a discredited theory of heredity, the... Lamarck, Latreille was appointed professor of zoology of Classes Remipedia Cephalocarida Branchiopoda Ostracoda Maxillopoda Malacostraca The crustaceans (Crustacea) are a large group of arthropods (55,000 species), usually treated as a subphylum. They include various familiar animals, such as lobsters, crabs, shrimp and barnacles. They are variously found in marine and freshwater, with a few terrestrial members (such... crustaceans, Orders Acarina Amblypygi Araneae Opiliones Palpigradi Pseudoscorpionida Ricinulei Schizomida Scorpiones Solifugae Uropygi The arachnids, Arachnida, are a class of invertebrate animals in the subphylum Chelicerata. Arachnids are named for the mythological figure Arachne. They are chiefly terrestrial arthropods, some 65,000 to 73,000 species including the spiders, scorpions, harvestmen... arachnids and insects, the chair of Classes Caudofoveata Aplacophora Polyplacophora - Chitons Monoplacophora Bivalvia - Bivalves Scaphopoda - Tusk shells Gastropoda - Snails and Slugs Cephalopoda - Squids, Octopuses, etc. The mollusks or molluscs are the large and diverse phylum Mollusca, which includes a variety of familiar creatures well-known for their decorative shells or as seafood. These range from tiny... molluscs, A worm is any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied invertebrate animals. The most famous is the earthworm, a member of phylum Annelida, but there are hundreds of thousands of different species that live in a wide variety of habitats other than soil. Originally, the word referred to any... worms and zoophytes being assigned to Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (September 12, 1777 - May 1, 1850) was a French zoologist and anatomist. Blainville was born at Arques, near Dieppe. In about 1796 he went to Paris to study painting, but he ultimately devoted himself to natural history, and attracted the attention of Georges Cuvier, for... Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville.

The The term crab is sometimes applied to several different groups of decapods, but only members of the Brachyura are true crabs; other taxa, such as hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, king crabs, and horseshoe crabs are, despite superficial similarities, not crabs at all. Hermit crabs, king crabs and porcelain crabs belong... crab genus Latreillia is named in his honour.

Works

• Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des crustaces et insectes (14 vols., 1802-1805), forming part of C. N. S. Sonnini's edition of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (September 7, 1707 - April 16, French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. Buffons views influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin. Buffon is best remembered for his great work Histoire naturelle, générale et particuli... Buffon
• Genera crustaceorum et insectorum, secundum ordinem naturalem ut familias disposita (4 vols., 1806 i8o7)
• Considérations sur l'ordre naturel des animaux composant les classes des crustaces, des arachnides, et des insectes (1810)
• Famillies naturelles du règne animal, exposes succinctement et dans un ordre analytique (1825)
• Cours d'entomologie (of which only the first volume appeared, 1831)
• the whole of the section Crustaces, Arachnides, Insectes, in Georges Cuvier Baron Georges Leopold Chretien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier (August 23, 1769 - May 13, 1832) was a French naturalist, He was born at Montbéliard (then Mömpelgard in Württemberg) under the name of Johann Leopold Nicolaus Friedrich Kuefer, and was the son of a retired officer... Georges Cuviers Regne animal
• many papers in the Annales du Museum, the Encyclopedie methodique, the Dictionnaire classique d'histoire naturelle and elsewhere.

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