Auguste Vinson
Jean-Dominique-Philippe-Auguste Vinson (4 August 1819, Sainte-Suzanne, Réunion – 27 August 1903, Saint-Denis, Réunion) was a French physician and naturalist. His father, François-Auguste Vinson (1791–1851), was a noted physician and politician. He was educated in Saint-Denis, Nantes and Paris, where he studied medicine under Alfred Velpeau.
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Auguste Vinson
Auguste Vinson (1819 - 1903) · Aranéides des îles de la Réunion, Maurice et Madagascar, Paris, Roret, 1863 (on Biodiversity Heritage Library). · Public domain
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- Jean Dominique Philippe Auguste Vinson.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- poet, zoologist and physician.
- Education
- Paris Medical Faculty.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour.
- Languages
- French.
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Jean-Dominique-Philippe-Auguste Vinson (4 August 1819, Sainte-Suzanne, Réunion – 27 August 1903, Saint-Denis, Réunion) was a French physician and naturalist. His father, François-Auguste Vinson (1791–1851), was a noted physician and politician. He was educated in Saint-Denis, Nantes and Paris, where he studied medicine under Alfred Velpeau.
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After finishing his studies in France, he returned to Saint-Denis. In 1862 Vinson was sent to Madagascar by Napoleon III to attend the coronation of Radama II. While here, he conducted valuable investigations of the islands' flora and fauna. Vinson is also credited for being the first scientist to successively cultivate cinchona on Réunion. Vinson was a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences.
• Aranéides des 'îles La Réunion, Maurice et Madagascar, avec 14 planches contenant 118 figures dessinées d'aprés nature, 1863 - Araneidae native to Réunion, Mauritius and Madagascar. • Voyage à Madagascar au couronnement de Radama II, 1865 - Voyage to Madagascar for the coronation of Radama II. • Mémoire sur les essais d'acclimatation des arbres à quinquina à l'île de la Réunion, 1875 - On acclimation of cinchona trees on Réunion. • "Faune détruite. Les Aepiornidés et les Huppes de l’île Bourbon", 1877. Bulletin Hebdomadaire de l’Association Scientifique de France 20, 327–331. • Salazie; ou, Le piton d'Anchaine, légende créole, 1888. • Notes publiées par le Docteur Auguste Vinson, sur la Flore de l'île de la Réunion, 1896 - Published notes of Dr. Vinson in regards to the flora of Réunion.
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Auguste Vinson (1819 - 1903) · Aranéides des îles de la Réunion, Maurice et Madagascar, Paris, Roret, 1863 (on Biodiversity Heritage Library).
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- 1.Auguste Vinson: De l’acclimatation à l’île de la Réunion: Oiseaux. In: Bulletin mensuel de la Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation, Paris, 1868, S. 625–632
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