Baillon Collection

Christophe Gouraud & Madeline Quemin1

1 Musée George Sand et de la Vallée Noire, 71 Rue Venose 36400 La Châtre, 36400, La Châtre, France

Corresponding author(s): Christophe Gouraud & Madeline Quemin (ornithocoll@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

Gouraud C. & M. Quemin. Inventory of the Baillon Collection (Musée George Sand et de la Vallée Noire, La Châtre, France). Gouraud C. & M. Quemin. Inventory of the Baillon Collection (Musée George Sand et de la Vallée Noire, La Châtre, France).

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, Occurrence

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbif.fr/resource?r=baillon_collection

Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Baillon Collection
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Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
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Distribution: https://ipt.gbif.fr/archive.do?r=baillon_collection
Publication date of data: 2024-01-18
Language: French
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2012-06-22
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