Philippe Dautzenberg
Philippe Dautzenberg is a Belgian conchyliologist , born the December 20th 1849 with Ixelles and dead the May 9th 1935 with Paris.
Having made fortune thanks to the manufacture of carpet, it constitutes a vast collection of shells which it acquires at the time of auctions or thanks to exchanges. It is not only one simple collector and makes appear good works of Taxinomie on S coming from the west of the Africa, Madagascar and the New Caledonia. Several personalities, whose Albert I {{er}} of Monaco, entrusts specimens to him to be determined. It also receives specimens collected by various scientific expeditions.
It bequeaths in 1929 its collection, comprising nearly 4,5 40.000 species and specimen million, and its library, rich person of almost 8.000 documents, with the royal Institut of the Natural science of Belgium.
Philippe Dautzenberg makes appear many articles so much in the Bulletin of the Belgian society of geology , the Journal of conchology , the Mémoires of the zoological Company of France , the Feuille of the young naturalists and other periodicals. He is also the author of the Atlas of pocket of the shells of the coasts of France (Handle, Océan, the Mediterranean) common, picturesque or edible (P. Klincksieck, Paris, 1897). He chairs the zoological Société of France in 1892.
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