George Albert Boulenger

George Albert Boulenger is a British zoologist of Belgian origin , born the October 19th 1858 with Brussels and dead the November 23rd 1937 with Saint-Malo.

Boulenger is the only child of Gustave Boulenger, Belgian public notary, and of Juliette Piérart of Valencians. It is graduate of Natural history in 1876 with the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles and works with the Natural history museum of natural history of this same city where it studies the Amphibians particularly, the Reptile S and the Poisson S. It frequently goes to the national Muséum of natural history of Paris and to the British Museum of London.

In 1880, it is invited to come to work with the Natural History Museum of London by Albert Charles Lewis Günther (1830-1914) where it is charged to carry out the catalog of the Amphibians which are preserved there. It is naturalized soon British. In 1882, he becomes assistant-naturalist of first class at the department of zoology, posts that he preserves until his retirement in 1920.

During its retirement, he studies the pink S and publishes 34 articles on subjects of Botanique like two books on the pinks of Europe.

According to its biographers, he was extremely meticulous person and had an infallible memory, it remembered all the specimens that it had seen and was able to name them.

Boulenger also played of the Violon and usually spoke French, German and English, read the Spanish , the Italian and a little Russian. Of course, as a zoologist, he knew the Greek and the Latin .

In 1921, a list of its publications (and species that it described there) of 77 pages mentions 877 articles (representing more than 5.000 pages), 19 monographs on fish, the Amphibians and the reptiles.

He is the author of 1.096 new species of fish, 556 of Amphibians and 872 of reptiles. Its monographs on the Amphibians, the Lizard S and another reptiles and the fish (in particular African, although it is never returned there) are famous.

He was member of the American Society off Ichthyologists (1935) and was the first member of honor of the American Society off Herpetologists. He receives, in 1937, the medal about Léopold, the highest distinction allotted to a civilian in Belgium.

It is necessary in particular, to mention its work on cavernicolous fish. In 1897, the king Léopold II of Belgium created a charged commission to recruit naturalists for the creation of a natural history museum to the Congo and entrusts the direction of it to Boulenger. Its principal discovery is, in 1921, a strange fish of Congo, blind and dépigmenté. It identifies it as being a new species and described it in Nature . It dedicates it to mysterious Mr. Geerts, the person who discovered this animal. It names this fish Caecobarbus geertsii , whose name of kind comes from caeco , blind man , and bearded = bearded. It also dedicated to Emílio Augusto Goeldi the species Flectonotus goeldii .

His/her son is the zoologist Edward George Boulenger (1888-1946).

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  • version scanée of Fauna off British India. Reptilia volume and amphibia by Boulenger

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