Russet-red Polydore

See also: Russet-red (homonymy)

Jean Louis Florent Polydore Roux is a painter and a Naturaliste French, born the July 27th 1792 with Marseilles and dead the April 12th 1833 with Bombay of the Peste.

It exposes to the Living rooms of Paris of 1819 with 1824. June 1st 1819, it obtains the place of conservative of the Natural history museum of Marseilles. It publishes in 1820, a Catalog of insects of Provence .

In 1828, Roux makes appear a Natural history of shellfish of the Mediterranean and the beginning of an iconography devoted to the Coquillage S.

It starts to make appear the Ornithologie of Provence which it stops when it leaves for India in 1831. Remained unfinished by its death in 1833, there includes/understands between 440 and 450 lithographed boards carried out by Beisson printing works of Marseilles, the text of the first volume and 48 pages of the second.

Russet-red succeeds in accompanying the baron Carl Alexander Anselm Freiherr von Hügel (1796-1870) who leaves for a voyage to Asia and which will visit the India (and the mountains Himalayan along the border between the Tibet and the Cachemire), Ceylon, the Australia and the New Zealand. Russet-red France in 1831 leaves, visit the Egypt but the two men separate following a disagreement in India. Russet-red dies of plague whereas it was apprétait to explore the Himalayas. It is replaced with the Natural history museum of Marseilles by Christophe Jerome Barthélemy Lapommeraye (1796-1869).

Source

Maurice Boubier (1925). Evolution of ornithology. Bookstore Felix Alcan (Paris): New scientific collection: II + 308 p.

External bond

Work the Russet-red one digitized by the SCD of [[University Louis Pasteur] of Strasbourg] the

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