Paul Brocchi

Paul Louis Antoine Brocchi (2 May 1838 - 12 August 1898) was a French naturalist and agronomist born in Nancy.

In 1875 he received his degree in science at the Sorbonne with a thesis on decapods under the guidance of Henri Milne-Edwards (1800–1885). For 25 years he taught classes at the École pratique des hautes études, and was successor to Émile Blanchard (1819–1900) at the Institut national agronomique. In July- 1898, he became a member of the Légion d'honneur.^[1]

During his career he described numerous zoological taxa, and performed extensive investigations in the fields of aquaculture, apiculture, sericulture and livestock raising. He also studied oyster farming and the anatomy of crustaceans.

Brocchi was the author of the "amphibian section" in Auguste Dumeril's Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale.^[2] He also wrote a noted treatise on pisciculture titled La pisciculture dans les eaux douces (1898).^[3]

References

France savante (biographical information)

^ Biographical information based on translation of an equivalent article at the French Wikipedia.
^ [1] Softcover, Antiquariaat Junk.
^ [2] Biodiversity Library

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Name	Brocchi, Paul
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Short description	French naturalist
Date of birth	2 May 1838
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Date of death	12 August 1898
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