Presidents of the Belgian Senate - Pierre Harmel, Edmond de Selys Longchamps, List of Presidents of the Belgian Senate, Anne-Marie Lizin (Paperback)

Chapters: Pierre Harmel, Edmond de Selys Longchamps, List of Presidents of the Belgian Senate, Anne-Marie Lizin, Armand de Decker, Jules D'anethan, Augustin Dumon-Dumortier, Goswin de Stassart, Maurice Lippens, Eugene de Ligne D'amblise et D'epinoy, Roger Lallemand, Frank Swaelen, Emile Digneffe, Robert Gillon, Camille de Tornaco, Charles Magnette. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Baron Michel Edmond de Selys Longchamps (May 25, 1813 - December 11, 1900) was a Belgian liberal politician and scientist. Selys-Longchamps was regarded as the world's greatest authority on dragonflies and damselflies. His wealth and influence enabled him to amass one of the finest collections of neuropteroid insects and to describe many species from around the world. His collection is housed in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. He was the author of Monographie des Libellulidees d'Europe (1840) and Faune Belge (1842). Selys-Longchamps was a wealthy aristocrat born at Paris. He was educated at home and never at University but became the leading student of Odonata (worldwide) and the Neuropteroid (worldwide) and Orthopteroid (mainly Europe) insects. He was also a leading ornithologist. A liberal representative in the Belgian Parliament he became Councillor for Waremme in 1846 entered the Belgian Senate in 1855 and was finally elected President of the Belgian Senate from 1880 - 1884. His early interest in birds is shown by a book of coloured figures of Belgian species painted when he was 16.Ornithology remained a life-long interest and he assembled an ornithological museum at Waremme maintaining a very large collections of birds, both European and Exotic and including a great auk and an egg. He was also interested in small mammals. At 18 ( 1831) he publish...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=210039