Aloïs Humbert

Aloïs Humbert (22 September 1829, in Geneva – 14 May 1887) was a Swiss naturalist and paleontologist who specialized in the study of myriapods.

Aloïs Humbert
Born22 September 1829 
Geneva 
Died14 May 1887  (aged 57)

In 1852 he began work as a curator at the Musée d'histoire naturelle in Geneva, where he worked closely with François Jules Pictet. He was involved in scientific missions to Ceylon and to Syria / Lebanon, from which, he collected a large number of specimens for the museum. While in the Middle East, he made important discoveries of fossil fish.[1]

Selected works
  • Monographie des chéloniens de la mollasse suisse, 1856.
  • Description de quelques espèces nouvelles de planaires terrestres de Ceylan, 1862 – Description of some new species of terrestrial planarians from Ceylon.
  • Essai sur les myriapodes de Ceylan, 1865 – Essay on myriapods of Ceylon.
  • Nouvelles recherches sur les poissons fossiles du Mont Liban, 1866 (with François Jules Pictet) – New research on fossil fish from Mount Lebanon.
  • Description de divers myriapodes du Musée de Vienne, 1869 – Description of various myriapods at the Vienna Museum.
  • Études sur les myriapodes et les insectes, 1870 (with Henri de Saussure) – Studies of myriapods and insects.
  • Description du Niphargus puteanus var. Forelii, 1876 – On Niphargus puteanus.
  • Myriapodes des environs de Genève, 1893 (posthumous release, published by Henri de Saussure) – Myriapods in the vicinity of Geneva.[2]

References
  1. Negotiations of the Swiss Natural Science ..., Volumes 70-72 by Swiss Society for Natural Sciences
  2. Works by or about Aloïs Humbert in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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