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Taphrospilus

Well-known member

• Oct 17, 2017

• #1

Just to open the thread on laglaizei = Léon François Laglaize as per key. I haven't checked the OD mentioned in the key but there is as well a second voyageur naturaliste called Erneste Laglaize.

If here is correct Léon collected Chalcopsitta atra spectabilis already in the year 1876. The The Eponym Dictionary of Birds shows as well no birth or death date. The Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France here shows him as:

Laglaize (Léon), natur.-voyageur, 52, rue de Paradis, Paris, 10e

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So there is a chance that he died in Paris. Maybe anyone here in the forum knows more about his life (dates)?

One OD here (even if I wouldn't say it is a description). The other here or to find here. Finally syn. Casuarius unappendiculatus here

 

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Björn Bergenholtz

(former alias "Calalp")

• Oct 17, 2017

• #2

Martin, I have no info on the "French" collector Monsieur Léon Laglaize (Léon François Laglaize), plume-dealer, trader, etc., etc., ...

However; note:

The Swiss collector, M. Léon Laglaize, made several expeditions ... (here)

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If of any relevance?

Maybe that's why he´s hard to find?

/B

 

Taphrospilus

Well-known member

• Oct 17, 2017

• #3

In here seems to be some confusion about his job and book about plumage trade? (See also p. 17 and 31).

 

Björn Bergenholtz

(former alias "Calalp")

• Oct 17, 2017

• #4

Good one, good clue, Martin, made me find this one, here, written in Buenos Aires, Argentina (here)!

Apparently Léon Laglaize was still alive in; " ... July 29, 1908"

At that point he´d also been collecting in "Senegambia" (today's Senegal).

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Björn Bergenholtz

(former alias "Calalp")

• Oct 18, 2017

• #5

And in 1913-17 as well as in 1920 he´s listed in Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France (latter list compiled 31 December 1919) as:

* LAGLAIZE (Leon), ... A., voyageur-naturaliste, 55 rue des Petites-Écuries, Paris, 10e. Ent. gén. [here alt. here]

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* = "Membre à vie" (Life Member). Member from 1887.

For the other symbol see the Introduction Liste de Membres.
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Taphrospilus

Well-known member

• Oct 18, 2017

• #6

In 1920/1921 here and here it looks like he moved to:

9, rue Papillon, Paris, 9e

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.. and even in 1932 here hee seemed to live there.

At least in 1934 he moved to here

64 bis avenida de la Libertad, Don Benito, province de Badajoz (Espagne)

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where still lived in 1936 here.

 

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l_raty

laurent raty

• Oct 18, 2017

• #7

I find him (or so it seems) [here], registered as a dealer (commerçant), travelling with a French passport delivered by the French consulate at Buenos Aires, having boarded the Lutetia for a crossing from Argentina to France on 27 Apr 1925.
Original document, scanned, [here] (last line, #543), with a picture, and suggesting he was born in Los Angeles, California, on 4 May [18]54.

 

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mb1848

Well-known member

• Oct 18, 2017

• #8

Boucard (Hummingbird v. 3 1893) states that Leon Laglaize was the grandson of Pierre Lorquin French collector in Gold Rush era California. Lorquin's Admiral is a butterfly named for him.

 

Taphrospilus

Well-known member

• Oct 18, 2017

• #9

Correct written here.

P.S. Full name Pierre Joseph Michel Lorquin (1797-1873) and similar is written here.

Laglaize, Leon (Enkel von P. J. M. Lorquin, — )

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Taphrospilus

Well-known member

• Jan 11, 2021

• #10

Maybe give Laglaize (1854?-) a second try?

The Eponym Dictionary of Birds claims:

Léon François Laglaize (DNF) was a French traveller, naturalist and collector in New Guinea (1880–1897) and Venezuela (1898).

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PScofield

Well-known member

• Jan 11, 2021

• #11

Yes a tricky one - Couple of things I can say.

1) He was born in France.
2) He was naturalised as a US citizen in 1875 in San Fransisco (The record Laurent refers to says San Fransisco not LA).
3) He was indeed Pierre Joseph Michel Lorquin's grandson through his daughter Zoe Marie.
4) His brother was Ernest Laglaise (b.1858) mentioned in the first post
5) He spent a great deal of time in Argentina

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