Pierre Antoine Delalande
Pierre Antoine Delalande (* March 27, 1787 in Versailles, † June 27, 1823 in Paris) was a French naturalist, explorer and painter.
Life
Delalande was the son of a taxidermist, who was national d' histoire naturelle employed in the Muséum in Paris. Already as a young man worked as an assistant Delalande by Étienne Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire also in this museum. In the studio of the Flemish animal painter Jean -Baptiste Berre (1777-1838), he was trained as a painter. The studio was located in the Jardin des Plantes and the wildlife and landscape paintings were exhibited at the Salon de Paris.
1808 accompanied Delalande Étienne Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire on a zoological collection trip to Portugal. In 1813 he was sent to Provence to gather in the Mediterranean fish and molluscs. In 1816 he accompanied together with the botanist Auguste Saint- Hilaire the French ambassador on board the frigate l' Hermione to Brazil. In the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro Delalande and Saint- Hilaire operated as a plant collector. This was the beginning of Saint- Hilaire's research in South America, about which he published the work " Voyage dans les Provinces de Rio de Janeiro Minas Geraes et ".
1818 Delalande traveled together with his twelve year old nephew Jules Verreaux southern Africa. Between November 1818 and September 1820 they made three trips into the interior. Your excursions led them eastward along the coast of Cape Town, north to the Olifants River and northeastward of the Algoa Bay to Keiskamma River. On his return to France, he presented the Muséum national d' histoire naturelle a collection of 13,405 specimens, including a complete skeleton of a 23 meter long, gestrandetem whale was dissected over a period of two months. Next were under Delaware state exhibits giraffes, rhinos, hippopotamus and remains of people, some of whom had been unearthed in an old cemetery in Cape Town and on the battlefield in Grahamstown. He also brought with him a collection of minerals, 10,000 insect specimens and an extensive herbarium, although many of his herbarium specimens were lost in transit to France and all living plants were left behind in Cape Town. During their stay in South Africa Delaware State health was severely attacked by tropical diseases. For his services he was awarded the Legion of Honor, but no financial support. In 1822 he published an article entitled " Precis d'un voyage au Cap de Bonne Espérance, " at the Museum Bulletin.
Dedikationsnamen
After Delalande include Hypericum lalandii, Tetrapteris lalandiana, the Southern breast band tyrant ( Corythopis dela landi ), the Spitzhaubenelfe ( Stephanoxis lalandi ), the Delalande Coua ( Coua delalandei ), the Brazilian sharpnose ( Rhizoprionodon lalandii ), Jasus lalandii, Nucras lalalandii and the Canary Islands Gecko ( Tarentola delalandii ) named.