Duvernoy's gland, a gland found in some snakes named for French zoologist Georges Louis Duvernoy
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Bartholin's glands were first described in the 17th century by the Danish anatomist Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655–1738).
The diversification of Hymenoptera took place in the Cretaceous and the gland may have developed at about this time (200 million years ago) as it is present in all three groups of Apocrita, the wasps, bees and ants.
Victor Alphonse Duvernoy (1842–1907), French pianist and composer; brother of Edmond Duvernoy
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Edmond Duvernoy (1844–1927), French baritone and teacher; brother of Victor Alphonse Duvernoy
While the glands were first described by the French surgeon Alphonse Guérin (1816-1895), they were named after the Scottish gynaecologist Alexander Skene, who wrote about it in Western medical literature.
Von Ebner's glands (also called gustatory glands) are named after Anton Gilbert Victor von Ebner, Ritter von Rosenstein, who was an Austrian histologist.