Emile Oustalet

Jean-Frederic Emile Oustalet , born the August 24th 1844 with Montbeliard and dead the October 23rd 1905, is a zoologist French.

Its thesis relates to Recherches on the fossil insects of the tertiary grounds of France (1874) where he studies the fossils mainly Auvergne and neighborhoods of Aix-en-Provence. In 1873, it succeeds Jules Verreaux (1807-1873) as assistant Naturaliste with the national Muséum of natural history of Paris. In 1900, it occupies the pulpit of Mammalogie after the death of Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900).

It makes appear to the Birds of China… With an atlas of 124 boards, drawn and lithographed by Mr. Arnoul and colored with the brush (1877) with the father Armand David (1826-1900). It is him which studies and describes the 160 specimens brought back by Jean Dybowski (1856-1928) during his forwarding to the Congo.

Oustalet chairs the zoological Société of France in 1893.

List partial of the publications

1874 : Research on the fossil insects of the tertiary grounds of France (Paris: G. Masson).
1878 : With A. Milne-Edwards, Studies on the Mammals and the Birds of the Comoro Islands (Paris).
1880 - 1881: Monograph of the birds of the family of mégapodiidés the (two parts, Paris).
1889 : Birds in the report of the scientific expedition of Cape Horn. 1882-1883 (Paris: Gauthier-Villars and wire).
1893 : the Protection of the birds (Paris: Jouvet) - reprinted in 1895 and republished in 1900.
1895 : Mammals and Birds of the Northern Marianna Islands (two parts, Paris).
1899 : Birds of Kampuchea, of Laos, of Annam and Tonkin (Paris).

Source

Philippe Jaussaud & Edouard R. Brygoo (2004). Of the Garden to the Natural history museum in 516 biographies . National natural history museum of natural history of Paris: 630 p.

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