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    René Primevère Lesson (20 March 1794 – 28 April 1849) was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist. Lesson was born at Rochefort...
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    Rosa 'Primevère' is a yellow hybrid wichurana, a large-flowered climbing rose. The cultivar was bred by French rose breeder, René Barbier in 1929. It...
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    Pierre Adolphe Lesson (1805–1888), also as Pierre-Adolphe Lesson, was a French botanist. The standard author abbreviation A.Lesson is used to indicate...
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    included Marodactylus cinereus by Goldfuss in 1820, P. flindersii by René Primevère Lesson in 1827, and P. koala by John Edward Gray in 1827.: 45  The koala...
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    ship kept in first-rate order." In commenting on this, he noted René Primevère Lesson's remark "that the English nation alone would have thought of making...
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    Diphyllodes is a genus of birds-of-paradise. Established by René-Primevère Lesson in 1834, it contains two species: the magnificent bird-of-paradise and...
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  • Anna's hummingbird was named in her honor by fellow ornithologist René Primevère Lesson. "Rivoli's Hummingbird Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of...
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    G. Levrault. Dumont de Sainte-Croix's daughter, Clémence married René-Primevère Lesson, a surgeon and noted French naturalist. His younger brother, André...
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    3 weeks before Jonathan. Eating Pick45 September 3. Pick55 August 27. Primevére New York, US Cross made 1962. Selected 1969. A red apple. Width 68–76 mm...
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    Juveniles are duller. The genus was defined by French naturalist René-Primevère Lesson in 1831. The name Micropsitta is derived from the Greek mikros...
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    Germinal (21/23 March – 19/21 April) 1 21 Mar Primevère (Primrose) 2 22 Mar Platane (Plane Tree) 3 23 Mar Asperge (Asparagus) 4 24 Mar Tulipe (Tulip)...
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  • during its circumnavigation of the globe (1822–1825). Along with René Primevère Lesson he collected numerous natural history specimens in South America...
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    is a genus of bird in the family Megapodiidae. First described by René Primevère Lesson in 1828, it contains the following species: Red-billed brushturkey...
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    markedly in recent years. The double-crested cormorant was described by René Primevère Lesson in 1831. It was formerly classified in the genus Phalacrocorax...
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    the original on 19 August 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2018. Lesson, René-Primevère (1827). Manuel de mammalogie ou Histoire naturelle des mammifères (in...
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    shark, or lesser white shark, was described in 1831 by naturalist René-Primevère Lesson, who named the shark Carcharhinus maou. It was next described by...
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    the genus Otis. The genus was established by the French naturalist René Primevère Lesson in 1839 and included only one species which was formerly described...
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    its English name. The nuthatch family, Sittidae, was described by René-Primevère Lesson in 1828. Sometimes the wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria), which...
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    weight of the grey-headed fish eagle. The genus was established by René-Primevère Lesson in 1843, to accommodate a single species, the grey-headed fish...
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    "Condors and Indians". Symbios Books. Retrieved April 21, 2024. Lesson, René-Primevère (1842). L'Echo du monde savant. [Description of genus Gymnogyps]. ser...
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    appenina Primula arunachalensis Primula atrodentata Primula aurantiaca (primevère à fleurs oranges) Primula aureata Primula auricula (auricula, bear's ear)...
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    "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14. Lesson, René-Primevère (1827). Manuel de mammalogie ou Histoire naturelle des mammifères (in...
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    behaviour. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 73(2): 187–198. HTML abstract Lesson, René-Primevère (1831): Traite d'Ornithologie 7:487; 8: 650. Temminck, Coenraad Jacob...
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    Dumont discovered the Adélie penguin, which is named after his wife. René-Primevère Lesson travelled on Coquille as a naval doctor and naturalist. On the...
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    1853, this fruit dove was evidently discovered 30 years earlier, by René Primevère Lesson (1794–1849), while serving as naturalist aboard La Coquille. It...
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  • François-Éric Gendron, Michel Such [fr], Udo Vioff [de] Thriller a.k.a. Opération Primevère. West German-French co-production Lili Marleen Rainer Werner Fassbinder...
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    gannet family, Sulidae. First described by the French naturalist René-Primevère Lesson in 1831, the masked booby is one of six species of booby in the...
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    Zoological Bibliography (2012 2(2&3)): 123. Retrieved 2017-10-21. René Primevère Lesson (1835). Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des épimaques...
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    by her Ladies in Waiting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter from 1855. René Primevère Lesson named the “Anna's hummingbird” after her. Carette Madame: Recollections...
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    of California sea lions. The California sea lion was described by René Primevère Lesson, a French naturalist, in 1828. It is grouped with other sea lions...
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