Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois
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Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois was a Belgium naturalist
Naturalist
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, born in 1839 at Aix-la-Chapelle and died in 1920 at Coxyde-sur-Mer. He took a doctorate in medicine, and in 1869 became curator of the department of vertebrates at the Royal Museum of Natural History in Brussels.

He worked with his father, Charles Frédéric Dubois
Charles Frédéric Dubois
Charles Frédéric Dubois was a Belgian naturalist.He was the author of Planches colorées des oiseaux de l’Europe and Catalogue systématique des Lépidoptères de la Belgique , which was completed by his son, Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois , after...

(1804–1867), in the production of Les Oiseaux de l’Europe et leurs œufs, completing it after his father’s death. The book was in two volumes, the second consisting of illustrations by Dubois senior.

He produced the two-volume La Faune illustrée des Vertébrés de la Belgique.
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