Eugène Louis Bouvier
Eugène Louis Bouvier was a French entomologist and carcinologist. Bouvier was a professor at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.
Biography
Following graduation at the normal school in Lons-le-Saunier, he taught classes in Clairvaux, Versailles, Saint-Cloud, and Villefranche-sur-Saône. From 1882 to 1887, he served as a boursier at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, where he studied with Alphonse Milne-Edwards and Edmond Perrier. Together with Milne-Edwards, he worked on some of the crustaceans from the Travailleur and Talisman expeditions.In 1887, he earned his doctorate in natural sciences with a dissertation involving prosobranch gastropods, Système nerveux, morphologie générale et classification des Gastéropodes prosobranches. In 1889, he became an associate professor at the Ecole supérieure de pharmacie de Paris, and in 1895, he attained a professorship of natural history at the muséum. Bouvier maintained the chair of entomology until 1931, when he was succeeded by René Jeannel.
His earlier studies dealt with evolution of various species, in particular crustaceans and mollusks.
Works
- Recherches sur les affinités des Lithodes & des Lomis avec les Paguridés – Studies on the closer relationships of the king crab Lithodes and Lomis with pagurid hermit crabs.
- Nouvelles observations sur les glaucothoés – New Observations on Glaucothoe.
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- Habitudes et Métamorphoses des insectes – Behavior and Metamorphosis of Insects.
- Le Communisme chez les insectes – Communism Among Insects.
- Monographie des lépidoptères saturnides – Monograph of Lepidoptera, Saturniidae.
- Décapodes marcheurs de la faune de France – Decapoda of France.