Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc

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Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, or Louis-Augustin Bosc d'Antic (January 29, 1759 - July 10, 1828) was a French botanist and invertebrate zoologist and entomologist.

Bosc was the author of Histoire naturelle des coquilles (Natural History of Shells) (1801-2). He visited the United States from 1798 to 1800.

Bosc's insect collection is shared between the Natural History Museum of Geneva , Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris and the Natural History Museum in London (Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat collection).

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Notton, D.G. A catalogue of types of the smaller taxa of Proctotrupoidea (Hymenoptera)in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, with notes on the history of the insect collection of L. A. G. Bosc d’Antic Zoosystema 29 (3) : 457-470 [1]