Alfredo Dugès

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Alfredo (Alfred Auguste Delsescautz) Dugès is a zoologist Mexican of origin French E, born the April 16th 1826 with Montpellier and dead the January 7th 1910 with Guanajuato with the Mexico.

His/her father is the Médecin and Naturaliste Antoine Louis Dugès (1797-1838), which teaches with the Medical college of Montpellier and which made appear some work on the osteology of the Amphibien S.

Alfred Dugès obtains his title of doctor of medicine at the university of Paris in 1852 and emigrates with the Mexico. He settles with Guanajuato and becomes obstetrician. Parallel to its medical activities, he teaches the Natural history at the school of higher education of the city (become a university today) and is the director of his natural history museum (since renamed Museo Alfredo Dugès).

With his brother, the entomologist Eugenio Dugès (1826-1895), which has him also emigrated in Mexico, it organizes frequent exits on the ground intended to collect specimens.

Alfredo Dugès is one of the first studied the fauna of Mexico in a modern and scientific way. It publishes many articles as well in Herpétologie as in Entomologie and in other branches of the Zoologie as in Botanique.

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