Dufour, Léon Jean Marie (1780-1865)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Léon Jean Marie (or Jean-Marie Léon) Dufour (11 April 1780 at Saint-Sever – 18 April 1865 also at Saint-Sever) was a French medical doctor and naturalist. Between 1799 and 1806 he studied medicine in Paris then returned to Saint-Sever in the Landes He participated as an army doctor in the Peninsular War. The war over, he returned to his birthplace. During his life he published, 232 articles on arthropods ( 20 on spiders ) and was the author of Recherches anatomiques sur les Carabiques et sur plusieurs autres Coléoptères (1824-1826, Paris). Dufour's gland is named after him.

In 1854, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

PUBLICATIONS

 * Dufour, L. 1857. Mélanges entomologiques. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. (3)(5): 39-70


 * Dufour, L. 1862. Notices entomologiques. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. (4)(2): 131-148


 * Dufour, L. 1864. Note sur une nouvelle espèce de fourmi (Formica Vinsonnella). Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. (4)(4): 210

REFERENCE

 * Nutall, G.H.F. 1922. Parasitology 14: 174-175, portrait.