Prosper Garnot

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Prosper Garnot (13 January 1794 – 8 October 1838) was a French surgeon and naturalist.

Garnot was born at Brest. He was an assistant surgeon under Louis Isidore Duperrey on La Coquille during its circumnavigation of the globe (1822-25). Along with Rene Primevere Lesson he collected numerous natural history specimens in South America and the Pacific. Garnot had a severe attack of dysentery and was sent back with some of the collection on the Castle Forbes. The specimens were lost when the ship was wrecked off the Cape of Good Hope in July 1824. With Lesson he wrote the zoological section of the voyage's report, Voyage autour du monde exécuté par order du roi sur la corvette La Coquille (1828-32). He died, aged 44, in Paris.

The widely-distributed parthenogenetic Indo-Pacific House Gecko Hemidactylus garnotii Duméril & Bibron, 1936, was named in his honour.

Literature

Prosper Jean Levot, Biographie de Proser Garnot, Revue des provinces de l'Ouest, Vol. 4, 1856, pp 466-467 online

Authority control	VIAF: 17612241 ISNI: 0000 0000 6312 5987 SUDOC: 128643498

Persondata
Name	Garnot, Prosper
Alternative names
Short description	French scientist
Date of birth	13 January 1794
Place of birth	Brest
Date of death	8 October 1838
Place of death	Paris

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.