Pierre-Medard Diard

Pierre-Medard Diard is a Naturaliste and an exploring French, born in 1794 and died in 1863.

It starts to study medicine when it stops its studies to engage in the French troops in 1813 - 1814. After its service, he studies in particular near Georges Cuvier (1769-1832). To the sides of Alfred Duvaucel (1793-1825), it leaves in India in 1817 to collect specimens of Natural history on behalf of the national Muséum of natural history. The following year, with Duvaucel, he works as naturalist for Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826). But in 1821, its collections are confiscated by the English Compagnie of the Eastern Indies. Diard then leaves Duvaucel to remain in Cochinchine, visit the kingdom of Annam and the Kampuchea. It is one of the first Europeans to visit Angkor. It leaves in Malaysia before working for the Dutchmen with Batavia. Its collections are then conveyed with the natural history museum of Leyde where they are studied by Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858). In 1825, it is named director of the agricultural services of the island of Java and takes part in the introduction of important culture as the Canne to sugar or the breeding of the Silkworm.

Many an S were dedicated to him like:

Trogon de Diard ( Harpactes diardii ) Oiseau of Trogonidae describes by Temminck in 1832.
Pheasant prelate ( Lophura diardi ), bird of the family of the Phasianidae describes by Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803-1857) in 1856.
Rhopodytes diardi , bird of the family of the Cuculidae describes by Rene Primevère Lesson (1794-1849) in 1830.
Typhlops diardii , Reptile of the family of the Typhlopidae describes by Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884) in 1839.
Hyllus diardi , Araignée of the family of the Salticidae describes by Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771-1852) in 1837.
Coilodera dairdi , Coléoptère of the family of the Scarabaeidae describes by Hippolyte Louis Gory (1852-?) and Achilles Rémy Percheron (1797-1869) in 1833.
As well as a subspecies of the nebulous Panther, Neofelis nebulosa diardi , promoted with the row of species in 2007 under the name of Neofelis diardi .

Source

Numa Pitcher (1992). illustrated Dictionary of the explorers and large French travellers of the XIXe century. II. Asia . Editions of the CTHS (Paris): 452 p.
This text uses extracts of the article of English language of Wikipédia (version of April 20th, 2006).

Bibliographical orientation

J.H. Peyssonnaux, Life, voyages and work of Pierre Medard Diard , Bulletin of the friends of the Hooted old man, n° 1 of the 22e year, Hanoï, 1935.

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