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Martial Étienne Mulsant (March 2, 1797 - November 4, 1880) was a French entomologist and ornithologist.

Initially employed in commerce Mulsant wrote writes Lettres à Julie sur l'entomologie, suivies d'une description méthodique de la plus grande partie des insectes de France, ornées de planches… Letters to Julie on entomology, followed by a methodical description of the greatest part of the insects of France with, decorated plates..., dedicated to his future wife, Julie Ronchivole. In 1817, he became mayor of Saint-Jean-la-Bussière, where his parents had property. In 1827, he became, following his father and grandfather, a Justice of the Peace. He settled in Lyon in 1830 and in 1839, he obtained a post of assistant librarian then, in 1843, a post of professor of natural history in a college, a post he occupied until 1873.

In 1840, he published Histoire naturelle des Coléoptères de France ,Natural History of the Coleoptera of France with various other entomologists : Antoine Casimir Marguerite , Eugene Foudras (1783-1859) and Claudius Rey (1817-1895), his former pupil. He also had as pupils Francisque Guillebeau (1821-1897) and Valéry Mayet (1839-1909). With Jean Baptist Édouard Verreaux (1810-1868), he wrote Histoire naturellle des punaises de France Natural History of the bugs of France between 1865 to 1879. He also published school texts on zoology and geology.He was, for many years, President of la Société linnéenne de Lyon. He was also interested in birds and published several studies took part in the work of the commission on hunting small birds. In 1868, he wrote Lettres à Julie sur l'ornithologie Letters to Julie on ornithology, a splendid work on the “oiseaux-mouches de 1874 à 1877” The hummingbird of Mulsant, Acestrura mulsanti, was named for him by Jules Bourcier (1797-1873) in 1842. Mulsant and Bourcier and were the authors of original descriptions of many new species.

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Entomology, from the Greek: entomo-/εντομο- "that which is cut in pieces or engraved/segmented", hence "insect"; and logos/λόγος, "knowledge",[1] is the scientific study of insects.
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Ornithology (from Greek: ορνισ, ornis, "bird"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of birds.
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Jules Bourcier (1797 - March 9, 1873) was a French naturalist.

Bourcier was a trochilidist (an expert on hummingbirds), and named a number of new species, either alone or with other ornithologists such as Adolphe Delattre and Martial Etienne Mulsant.
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