> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 190](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265387) of TL-2 Suppl. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/32452-1) LSID 32452-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44691) QID Q44691 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Blainville, Henri Marie Ducrotay de|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Blainville, Henri Marie Ducrotay de (1778-1850), French biologist, studied with Cuvier, Dr. méd., professor of natural history at the Collège de France and at the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, professor of anatony and zoology at the Faculté des Sciences 1812, professor of conchyology at the Muséum 1830, id. of comparative anatomy thus succeeding Cuvier. **Abbreviated name**: *Blainv.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Blainv.*\] #### Herbarium and types If at all at [[Collection P|P]]/[[Collection PC|PC]]. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 69; BM 1: 169-170, 6: 96; CSP 1: 406-408, 7: 185; Kew 1: 259; Quenstedt p. 42; TL-2/1: 227. #### Biofile - A., B., Rev. Mag. Zool. 2. 2: 291-294. 1850. - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 8(48): 864. 1850 (d. nr. Dieppe in a train between Paris and Rouen); Grand Larousse encyclopédique 2: 162. 1960. - Bédard, J., Séance ann. Acad. Imp. Méd. 15 Dec 1863, Paris 1864, 22 p. (n.v.). - Bourguin, A., Ann. Soc. Linn. Dépt. Maine-et-Loire 18: 111-148. 1869. - Carpenter, M.M., Amer. Midl. Natural. 33(1): 10. 1945 ("Bibl. biogr. Entomol.", giving 1777 as year of birth). - Edwards, M., Ann. Sci. nat. Zool. ser. 3. 12: 375-381. 1849 (1850) (nécrologie; b. 12 Sep 1778, d. 1 Mai 1850). - Flourens, M.J.P., Recueil Éloges historiques 1: 285-342. 1856 (biogr., bibl.). - Lyell, Ch., Quart. J. Geol. Soc. London 7: xxvi. 1851. - Nicard, P., Notices historiques sur la vie et les écrits de M.H. de B., Paris 1850 (bibl. 181 nos., n.v.). - Nordenskiöld, E., Hist. of Biol. 359-361. 1935. - Schwippel, K., Gaea (Cologne) 27: 424. 1891. - Zittel, K.A. von, Gesch. Geol. Paläont. 189, 221, 800, 812, 819, 827, 834. 1899. #### Note The *Manuel d'actinologie*, 1830-1834, is available on microfiche IDC 8436.