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Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert
French banker and naturalist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert (14 February 1773 – 1 March 1847) was a French banker and naturalist. He was an honorary member of the Académie des Sciences and many species were named from his natural history collections.
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