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Louis Bedel (1849-1922), entomologist, beetle...

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Louis Bedel (1849-1922), entomologist, beetle specialist, author of the 5-volume Faune des coléoptères du bassin de la Seine; his collection is kept at the Museum. 6 L.A.S. to the entomologist Alfred Chobaut (1860-1926). Paris, 1891-1896 and n.d. 18 pp. petit in-8. Important correspondence relating to entomology, evoking the insects of the Maghreb, their respective publications, the entomological society, their colleagues, its excursions and hunts. Bedel adds long descriptions of specimens, etc. He received and appreciated the memoir Emenadia Flabellata de Chobaut, a dissertation about larvae and insects from Algeria and is available for examination, etc.