Article Nº 1656 Scientist or naturalist Vol. II · pp. 177–178
Girard (Alberto A.)
French-born naturalist, naturalised Portuguese and trained as a civil engineer, who accompanied King Carlos on oceanographic explorations and wrote on the cephalopods and fossil molluscs of Madeira.
A naturalist who accompanied the late King Carlos I on many of his oceanographic explorations. He was a French citizen but became a naturalised Portuguese, and had a degree in civil engineering obtained in Portugal. He was born in 1860 and died on 2 September 1914. Works: Les Céphalopodes des Iles Açores et de l'Ile Madère (Jorn. das Sc. Math, Phys. e Nat., 1892). He also dealt with some fossil molluscs of the Madeira archipelago in the Extracto das communicações da Commissão de trabalhos Geológicos, vol. II, fasc. II.
People mentioned
- Alberto A. Girard 1860–1914
- Carlos I d. 1922
Places mentioned