Auguste Lantz

Auguste Lantz is a Naturaliste French at the origin of the significant development of the collections of the Muséum of natural history of the Meeting, of which he was the first conservative of 1863 with 1893.

Preparer with the national Natural history museum of natural history of Paris, it is retained the May 30th 1862 for the station of conservative of the new Natural history museum of natural history of the island of the Réunion seven years after his inauguration in 1855.

Voyages

As of the year which follows its arrival to the Meeting, Auguste Lantz travels to Madagascar. In 1865, it takes part in the forwarding of Alfred Grandidier on this island. Two years later, in 1867, it traverses of it the west and in particular the island of Nosy Be. It brings back for this forwarding 703 birds and 19 mammals. In 1870, after having visited the east coast between September and November 1868, it is this time in the area of Tananarive. It will return from there with 653 birds and a score of mammals.

Auguste Lantz visits then various islands of the Seychelles from April at September 1877 at the request of Eugene Chevreul, then director of the Parisian natural history museum. He brings back three parakeets from there to collar of endemic Ward ( Psittacula wardi ), of the birds S of the archipelago and disappeared today. A specimen always forms part of the collections of the Natural history museum, and there are not of them more but thirteen on the whole in the world.

In 1874, Auguste Lantz explores finally the island Saint-Paul and the island Amsterdam. It returns from there with a beautiful collection of Poisson S and marine birds.

Of all its voyages, it brings back each species in double specimen at least. The doubled blooms are used to him as currency of exchange with natural history musea of natural history in France, among which those of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Brest, Caen, Colmar, Douai, Foix, Nancy, Paris, Rouen and Strasbourg. It also exchanges with counterparts of Leyde to the Netherlands, Oslo in Norway and Adélaïde in Australia.

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