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unusual facts about Fourcroy


Fourcroy

Cape Fourcroy, a cape located at the western tip of Bathurst Island, Northern Territory, Australia


Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy

Fourcroy's 1785 publication, Entomologia Parisiensis, sive, Catalogus insectorum quae in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur ..., co-written with Étienne Louis Geoffroy, was a major contribution to systematic entomology.

Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy

He visited Paris again in 1803 and 1805, and during these periods attended the lectures of Fourcroy, Lacépède, and Georges Cuvier.


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