Louis Lavauden
Louis Lavauden was a French zoologist and forester.
He was a student at the French [National School of Forestry|Institut agronomique et de l'Ecole forestière] in Nancy, afterwards conducting zoological studies of the province Dauphiné. In 1912–13 he performed research of the fauna in Algeria and Tunisia, and following World War I, returned to Tunisia as a forester. In 1925 he took part in one of the first motorized crossings of the Sahara. From 1928 he was stationed in Madagascar, where he collected zoological specimens that included a number of lemur species.
Lavauden is credited with providing descriptions for several new mammal and avian species/subspecies. Many of his collections are housed at the natural history museum in Grenoble :fr:Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Grenoble.
He was, from 1929, on the editorial committee of Alauda, Revue internationale d'Ornithologie :fr:Alauda, Revue internationale d'Ornithologie with its founder Paul Paris and Noël Mayaud, Henri Heim de Balsac, Jacques de Chavigny, Henri Jouard, Jacques Delamain and Paul Poty.
Selected publications
- Oiseaux, 1924.
- La Chasse et la faune cynègètique en Tunisie, 1924.
- Les vertèbrès du Sahara : èlèments de zoologie saharienne, 1926.
- Le Problème forestier colonial. Avec 7 photographies et 3 planches hors texte, 1931.
- Le problème forestier colonial, 1931.
- * Books by Lavauden that have been translated into English:
- The colonial forest problem, 1934.
- The equatorial forest of Africa : its past, present and future, 1937.