Baillon Collection
Museum George Sand et de la Vallee Noire
Description
The Musée George Sand et de la Vallée Noire holds an important collection of mounted birds specimens started by Jean François Emmanuel Baillon during the 18th century and completed by his son Louis Antoine François Baillon until he died in 1855. Baillon father and son were 2 naturalists from northern France and have been in touch and exchanged specimens with some of the most famous naturalists and explorers of their time (e.g. Buffon, Cuvier, Temminck, Prince of Wied, Vieillot, Bonelli, Bruch, Leach, Ruppell, Levaillant, Verreaux, Leschenault...). The Baillon Collection houses 2480 specimens representing 1318 species of birds, collected in all continents including Antarctica, with more than 60 pre-1800 specimens as well as 9 specimens of extinct species or subspecies. The Baillon Collection also holds 41 specimens of bats mainly collected in northern France.
Type of content
Includes: point occurrence data, gbif import.
Citation
Museum George Sand et de la Vallee Noire (2012). Baillon Collection. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/xdk8df accessed via GBIF.org on 2020-03-18.
Digitised records
Looking up... the number of records that can be accessed through the GBIF France. This resource was last checked for updated data on 18 Mar 2020. The most recent data was published on 22 Jun 2012.
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