Léopold de Folin

{{short description|French zoologist, author and oceanographer}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Léopold de Folin | image = Leopold de Folin.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = 28 August 1817 | birth_place = Tournus, Saône-et-Loire | death_date = {{death date and age|5 July 1896|28 August 1817}} | death_place = Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques | residence = | citizenship = | fields = Oceanography, malacology | workplaces = | alma_mater = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = Folin | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature =  | signature_alt = | footnotes = }} '''Léopold de Folin'''<ref>http://www.museedelamer.com/archives/histoire/pourquoi.php {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081122003652/http://www.museedelamer.com/archives/histoire/pourquoi.php |date=2008-11-22 }} {{in lang|fr}}</ref> ({{IPA|fr|leɔpɔl(d) də fɔlɛ̃}}; Alexandre Guillaume Léopold de,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Meijer.T/tm/paginas/an-arch-bpers-f.htm |title=TM - IceAge Molluscs: Malacological heritage - F |accessdate=2008-10-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080712041337/http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Meijer.T/tm/paginas/an-arch-bpers-f.htm |archivedate=2008-07-12 |language=fr}}</ref> Marquis de Folin, 28 August 1817 – 5 July 1896<ref>http://www.getxo.net/cas/ayu/personal/N00003.pdf {{in lang|eu}}</ref>) was an author, oceanographer, malacologist and early founder (1871) of the collections which were to become the ''Musée de la mer'' (sea museum)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.paysenfrance.com/64-pays-basque/Biarritz/fr/histoire-biarritz-napoleon.html |title=Le couple impérial Eugénie et Napoléon à Biarritz |accessdate=2008-10-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119141032/http://www.paysenfrance.com/64-pays-basque/Biarritz/fr/histoire-biarritz-napoleon.html |archivedate=2008-11-19 |language=fr}}</ref> in Biarritz, France<ref>http://www.museedelamer.com/archives/histoire/folin.php {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121225754/http://www.museedelamer.com/archives/histoire/folin.php |date=2008-11-21 }} {{in lang|fr}}</ref>

De Folin wrote on Caecidae for the reports published following the Challenger expedition of 1872–1876.

With Henri Milne-Edwards's son Alphonse, de Folin carried out a survey of the Gulf of Gascony. He worked on board the ''Travailleur'' (a paddle-wheel aviso) in 1880, and on board the ''Talisman'' in 1883, for trips to the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Islands and the Azores.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/document/Histoire_Oceano.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-10-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081113162430/http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/document/Histoire_Oceano.pdf |archivedate=2008-11-13 |language=fr}}</ref>

De Folin also described the genus ''Oceanida'' of sea snails in the family ''Eulimidae''.

==Relatives== Léopold de Folin was the brother-in-law of the French naturalist Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet, through his marriage with Morelet's sister Noémie.

==Books== * ''Les Batysiphons'' (premières pages d'une monographie du genre) in ''Actes de la société Linnéenne de Bordeaux''. Deloynes - J. Perez - Paul Brunaud - Abbé Letu - E. Simon - P. Fischer - P. De Loynes - Marquis DE FOLIN - Fernand Lataste - Louis Petit - E. Benoist - J. T. Billiot - P. Fischer - E. Duregne, 1886. * ''Les Fonds de la Mer'', études internationale sur les particularités nouvelles des régions sous-marines. De Folin, L. & Périer, L., 1867–1887. {{in lang|fr}} * ''Sous les mers''. Campagne d'explorations du "travailleur" et du "talisman". Avec 45 figures intercalées dans le texte. Paris, Librairie J.B. Baillière et fils, 1887 {{in lang|fr}}. * ''Pêches et chasses zoologiques''. Avec 117 figures dessinées par l'auteur et intercalées dans le texte. Paris, Baillière, 1893 {{in lang|fr}} * [https://www.amazon.fr/s?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books-fr&field-author=L%C3%A9opold-Alexandre-Guillaume%2C%20Mis%20de%20Folin Other books on Amazon.com]

==Tributes== The sea snail genus ''Folinella'' was named after de Folin.

An exposition room dedicated to oceanography in the ''Musée de la mer'' in Biarritz, France, bears his name.

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