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Aloïs Humbert
Swiss naturalist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aloïs Humbert (22 September 1829, in Geneva – 14 May 1887) was a Swiss naturalist and paleontologist who specialized in the study of myriapods. He also described new vertebrates (fishes, reptiles, mammals), molluscs and flatworms.
In 1852 he began work as a curator at the Musée d'histoire naturelle in Geneva, where he worked closely with François Jules Pictet. He was involved in scientific missions to Ceylon and to Syria / Lebanon, from which, he collected a large number of specimens for the museum. While in the Middle East, he made important discoveries of fossil fish.[1]