Susan Manchester
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Is the Green Hermit (Phaethornis guy) named for French naturalist J. Guy? If so, does anyone know where I could find information about him? If not, who is this species named for?
Is the Green Hermit (Phaethornis guy) named for French naturalist J. Guy? If so, does anyone know where I could find information about him? If not, who is this species named for?
Mr. Joseph Guy, author of well known Spelling-book and of various elementary educational works on history, geography and various branches of science, died on Saturday, the 19th inst. (1867), at the age of 83.
PS. Guy and Lesson are certainly not the easiest words to search for! Either one, or both, combined with Paris or London (alt. Londres) sure dosn´t help.
L'individu que nous décrivons provient de Londre, où M. Guy se l'est procuré.
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J. Guy (fl. 1833) French amateur collector (syn. Nymphicus hollandicus, Phaethornis).
No, I'd read "acheté à Londres" as "bought at" (i.e., in) London, not "from London". (Even if, admittedly, it is not completely unimaginable that in some contexts "Londres" might be used as a shortcut to denote an entity that sales things. But I'd not take this as the default meaning and I see no suggestion that this is the case here.)Martin, doesn´t those sentences, by Lesson himself, tell us that M. Guy bought birds from England?
[here] -- indeed. (Lesson calls him an amateur [here].)In one acknowledgement Lesson reports that M. Guy brought back several skins from London (i.e. strongly indicating that Guy lived in France).
There seem to be two of them, there... One, simply called "Guy", naturaliste, 9 rue Guy Labrosse, and another one, referred as "Guy aîné" ("Guy the elder" -- "aîné", used this way, would be a word added to his name to prevent confusion with a younger homonym), naturaliste, 2 rue de l'École de Médecine.I will leave this thread (to much time vasted, in vain, me just fumbling around) but before I leave it in more capable hands ...simply following the clue "M. Guy, naturaliste à Paris", we have a certain "Guy, naturaliste" with the address (rue) "Guy-Labrosse, 9" (here and here), in Paris 1849-1852. A guy named Guy on Guy-Labrosse ... sigh!.
There seem to be two of them, there... One, simply called "Guy", naturaliste, 9 rue Guy Labrosse, and another one, referred as "Guy aîné" ("Guy the elder" -- "aîné", used this way, would be a word added to his name to prevent confusion with a younger homonym), naturaliste, 2 rue de l'École de Médecine.
Ce chat monstrueux existe dans la collection de M. Guy, marchand naturaliste, rue de l'École-de-Médecine, n° 4, qui en possède le squelette monté et la peau;
here.L`art a fourni a la science anatomique en particulier les secours les plus précieux. Nos musées se parent à juste titre des préparations en cire de Laumonier, de Dupont et de M. Guy aîné, leur emule. L'anatomie doit aussi beaucoup à la peinture
Guy aîne, propriétaire, rue du Cugnaux, faubourg-Saint-Cyprien, à Toulouse (Haute-Garonne)
Guy, Directeur de l'Aquarium Toulousain 15, rue de Cagnaux, Toulouse
Guy aîne, rue Saint-Antoine-du T, 12, Toulouse
Guy aîné (Joseph), directeur de l'Aquarium toulousain