Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
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Some doubts on Prévost (1 Viewer)
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Taphrospilus
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I agree that it is a pity to kill Alphonse dedications, but that's life. And of course I would like to know if he was really born 1799 (as mentioned earlier in one of my links) and where. Same for his death which is even more a mystery to me. I could find only his marriage here p. 47.
Note: Lessons wife Clémence Marie Lesson née Dumont de Sainte-Croix (1796–1834) was as well an artist in natural history. At least Lessons hummingbird books contain a couple of plates from Mme Lesson.
I have one additional point to add. Why should be Euryceros prevostii and Amblycercus prevostii (both in the same book Centurie zoologique) for two different people if both descriptions mention Florent and no Alphonse at all?
Note: Lessons wife Clémence Marie Lesson née Dumont de Sainte-Croix (1796–1834) was as well an artist in natural history. At least Lessons hummingbird books contain a couple of plates from Mme Lesson.
I have one additional point to add. Why should be Euryceros prevostii and Amblycercus prevostii (both in the same book Centurie zoologique) for two different people if both descriptions mention Florent and no Alphonse at all?
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Taphrospilus
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According to the Bayrische Staatsbibliothek in Munich: Pl. no. 35 shows Colombe Peinte (C. Picturata, Temm.) in the text to the plate Prévost mentioned l'îles Mariannes. I hope this is enough to disprove the concerns.
l_raty
laurent raty
l'île Marianne or les îles Mariannes?
("l'îles Mariannes" makes no sense, the article is singular but the name is plural. The Seychelles island should be in the singular; if in the plural, it's the Pacific ocean archipelago that is meant.)
But, whichever, if Florent Prévost mentioned the name in Les Pigeons, this certainly supports the bird being named after him.
("l'îles Mariannes" makes no sense, the article is singular but the name is plural. The Seychelles island should be in the singular; if in the plural, it's the Pacific ocean archipelago that is meant.)
But, whichever, if Florent Prévost mentioned the name in Les Pigeons, this certainly supports the bird being named after him.
mb1848
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Poor Alphonse! The dove is named for Florent. Laurent's cited an article by E. Newton . He does not mention prevostiana he called it picturata. But he did kill a dove on Marianne Island and he mentions that there was no rats or cats on the island. But he thinks that after the island is covered by coconut groves the native birds would disappear. He also mentions on other islands in the Seychelles doves were introduced from Mauritius. Charles Richmond thought that the bird Newton collected on Marianne was prevostiana but he does not say why.
http://www.zoonomen.net/cit/RI/SP/Ture/ture00320a.jpg .
http://www.zoonomen.net/cit/RI/SP/Ture/ture00320a.jpg .
l_raty
laurent raty
The MNHN has [two doves from Marianne] as well (collected 1877), that are also called rostrata. Yet Bonaparte's prevostiana is typically placed in the synonymy of nominate picturata, not that of rostrata; and his description (bill slender and elongated ["grêle et allongé" / "gracilis, magis elongato"]) probably excludes rostrata (which he had just described as having the bill much stronger ["beaucoup plus fort" / "valde robustior"] than in picturata; note that both descriptions were based on birds from the Museum Parisianum, so Bonaparte had quite likely had the opportunity to compare these specimens directly). If the birds on Marianne are (or were, allowing for possible subsequent introductions) rostrata, this make it all the more suspect as the type locality of prevostiana.
I tried to trace Bonaparte's bird in the MNHN database (i.a., by checking [all Streptopelia picturata], [all Columbidae collected by Quoy & Gaimard], etc.), but no likely candidate emerged.
Note that, as was expectable, specimens from the Seychelles are entirely lacking among the [Quoy & Gaimard birds].
[Here] is a syntype of rostrata (with pictures of the specimen, label, base of former socle, and the text from Voisin et al. 2005).
...To muddy things still a bit more: I don't know if there are doves there, but it might perhaps be argued that we should as well consider [this]...
mb1848
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Thanks for the hard work! What a great resource the Museum has provided. There is nothing connecting Dussumier collector of rostratus to Marianne Isle it is known he collected in Mahe.
http://iczn.org/content/comments-pr...gantea-schweigger-1812-currently-geochelone-a . I like your thought of the Marianne from Mauritius because of the intersection of 1820 Quoy and Mauritius. A type skin would be nice.
http://iczn.org/content/comments-pr...gantea-schweigger-1812-currently-geochelone-a . I like your thought of the Marianne from Mauritius because of the intersection of 1820 Quoy and Mauritius. A type skin would be nice.
Taphrospilus
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Just to add additional information from BSB. In the book is written:
l_raty
laurent raty
Thanks, Martin. With such a wording, what Prévost meant was certainly the Marianna Islands in the Pacific, then, not Marianne Island in the Seychelles. (And, thus, there was clearly no misinterpretation by Bonaparte. Where the bird(s) actually came from is, of course, another problem.)
"quelques-uns" (= several) comes as a surprise...
"quelques-uns" (= several) comes as a surprise...
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Taphrospilus
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The link in my initial post about Lucien Alphonse Prevost was slightly wrong. Correct is here. There is written:
I never have seen something similar regarding Florent and therefore still disagree on HBW Alive entry of today
I would agree on aide-natualiste however you would translate this word into english.
I never have seen something similar regarding Florent and therefore still disagree on HBW Alive entry of today
I would agree on aide-natualiste however you would translate this word into english.
mb1848
Well-known member
I found some bird illustrations by A. Prevost from 1820 when F. Prevost was 26. It is Kuhl's parrot paper.
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/113410#page/119/mode/1up .
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/113410#page/119/mode/1up .
Taphrospilus
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Small enhanhement his full name was Guillaume Florent Prevost as we find in V4E 621 Archive en ligne Paris here p. 17 of 31 (hope the link works). I would appreciate if Laurent is willing to translate the text (as I understood he died 1. February (as again hier à onze heures in the text) and this would exactly fit to the footnote here). It looks like he was married with Fanny Coucie and born in Paris. As he seems to be Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur we might find additional information (Leonore).
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nartreb
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The handwriting is a bit of a challenge for me, let me start with a transcript:
Du deux Fevrier mille huit cent soixante dix, a onze heures du matin
acte de deces de Guillaume Florent Prevost, decede' hier
a` onze heures du soir, a` Paris, en son domicile, rue ?Curin? onze, age' de
soixante seize ans, aide naturaliste au museum d'histoire naturelle
chevalier de la Le'gion d'Honneur, ne' a` Paris, marie' a ?Fanny?
?Coucie?, a^ge'e de soixante\e quatorze ans ?et?? autres renseignements
?? dit deces du^ment ??. Sur la declaration de Adolphe Jean
?Fetillon?, gendre du defunt, age' de quarante un ans, directeur de l'
Ecole Municipale Colbert, demeurant rue ?Charleroi? ?Bandon? 24, officier de la
legion d'honneur et de Louis Jacques Alphonse Prevost, neveu du defunt,
a^ge' de quarante six ans, chef de bureau au ministere de l'Interieur, chevalier de la
legion d'honneur, demeurant place ?Beauneau? 96, qui ?a chargee? ?accessour? Etienne
Augustin ?Albreils? adjoint, ???? due cinquieme arrondissement, apres lecture
[signatures]
Du deux Fevrier mille huit cent soixante dix, a onze heures du matin
acte de deces de Guillaume Florent Prevost, decede' hier
a` onze heures du soir, a` Paris, en son domicile, rue ?Curin? onze, age' de
soixante seize ans, aide naturaliste au museum d'histoire naturelle
chevalier de la Le'gion d'Honneur, ne' a` Paris, marie' a ?Fanny?
?Coucie?, a^ge'e de soixante\e quatorze ans ?et?? autres renseignements
?? dit deces du^ment ??. Sur la declaration de Adolphe Jean
?Fetillon?, gendre du defunt, age' de quarante un ans, directeur de l'
Ecole Municipale Colbert, demeurant rue ?Charleroi? ?Bandon? 24, officier de la
legion d'honneur et de Louis Jacques Alphonse Prevost, neveu du defunt,
a^ge' de quarante six ans, chef de bureau au ministere de l'Interieur, chevalier de la
legion d'honneur, demeurant place ?Beauneau? 96, qui ?a chargee? ?accessour? Etienne
Augustin ?Albreils? adjoint, ???? due cinquieme arrondissement, apres lecture
[signatures]
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l_raty
laurent raty
I'd make it:
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On 2 Feb 1870 at 11 AM. Death certificate of Guillaume Florent Prevost, deceased yesterday at 11 PM, in Paris, at his residence, rue Cuvier 11, aged 76, assistant naturalist at the museum of natural history, knight of the legion of honour, born in Paris, married to Fanny Coucie, aged 74 [?] without other information. Said death duly ascertained. On declaration of Adolphe Jean Fetillon, gender of the deceased, aged 46, director of the Colbert Municipal School, residing, rue Chateau Landon 27, officer of the legion of honour and of Louis Jacques Alphonse Prevost, nephew of the deceased, aged 46, chief of office at the Ministry of the Interior, knight of the legion of honour, residing place Beauveau 96, who signed with us, Etienne Augustin Albinet, deputy mayor of the fifth arrondissement, after reading.)
(Prevost
398
On 2 Feb 1870 at 11 AM. Death certificate of Guillaume Florent Prevost, deceased yesterday at 11 PM, in Paris, at his residence, rue Cuvier 11, aged 76, assistant naturalist at the museum of natural history, knight of the legion of honour, born in Paris, married to Fanny Coucie, aged 74 [?] without other information. Said death duly ascertained. On declaration of Adolphe Jean Fetillon, gender of the deceased, aged 46, director of the Colbert Municipal School, residing, rue Chateau Landon 27, officer of the legion of honour and of Louis Jacques Alphonse Prevost, nephew of the deceased, aged 46, chief of office at the Ministry of the Interior, knight of the legion of honour, residing place Beauveau 96, who signed with us, Etienne Augustin Albinet, deputy mayor of the fifth arrondissement, after reading.)
nartreb
Speak softly and carry a long lens
Ah, thanks, i think you've deciphered the tough bits. One small correction: Fetillon is the "gendre" which means son-in-law (husband of Prevost's daughter).
l_raty
laurent raty
True, thanks to you too. I went too fast, and anglicized the word rather than translating it, it seems.
Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
Today's HBW Alive Key:
Taphrospilus
Well-known member
But I still disagree that he was an artist. I agree that he was assistant naturalist as translated by Laurent. Till now no one here in the forum showed evidence that he illustrated any plate.
Björn Bergenholtz
(former alias "Calalp")
Martin, I didn´t mean that I agreed in the Key's claim he was an artist (I hope you understood that), I was just informing that your finding of the name Guillaume was now added to the Key's full name of Florent Prévost. In my mind him being called an artist is just a mix-up with Alphonse ...
In the notes for my MS (this far) I have him as: Florent Prévost (1794–1870) whose full name was Guillaume Florent Prévost (and not Prévôt, simply as there´s no circumflex in the birth register), "aide naturaliste" (in the sence: "in office; naturalist" ...?*) and, simply trusting the words by Charles Blanc (1862): "chef des travaux zoologiques au muséum d'histoire naturelle" [in charge of/responsible/head for/of the zoology department/work at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle" (in Paris)].
Or something like that (in Swedish).
Björn
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*Laurent, am I correct in that the French aide can be interpreted as being somewhat more (of higher "rank") than just a (simple, low-rank) assisistant?
In the notes for my MS (this far) I have him as: Florent Prévost (1794–1870) whose full name was Guillaume Florent Prévost (and not Prévôt, simply as there´s no circumflex in the birth register), "aide naturaliste" (in the sence: "in office; naturalist" ...?*) and, simply trusting the words by Charles Blanc (1862): "chef des travaux zoologiques au muséum d'histoire naturelle" [in charge of/responsible/head for/of the zoology department/work at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle" (in Paris)].
Or something like that (in Swedish).
Björn
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*Laurent, am I correct in that the French aide can be interpreted as being somewhat more (of higher "rank") than just a (simple, low-rank) assisistant?
