Félix Biet was a French

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 missionary

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 and naturalist

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Félix Biet was ordained as a priest in 1864. He was next sent to Tatsienlu in Tibet as a missionary and he became a Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kangding in 1898. Félix Biet collected butterflies for Charles Oberthür

Charles Oberthür

Charles Oberthür was a French entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera. He was the son of François-Charles Oberthür.Oberthür named 42 new genera of moths -Works:...

 who dedicated three new species (Thecla bieti, Pantoporia bieti

Pantoporia bieti

The Tytler's Lascar is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in tropical and subtropical Asia....

and Anthocharis bieti

Anthocharis bieti

The Anthocharis bieti is a butterfly which has a range such that it is mainly confined to China....

) to him. Alphonse Milne-Edwards

Alphonse Milne-Edwards

Alphonse Milne-Edwards was a French mammalologist, ornithologist and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who settled at Bruges .Milne-Edwards obtained a medical degree in 1859 and became assistant to his father...

 described the Chinese Mountain Cat and the Black Snub-nosed Monkey

Black Snub-nosed Monkey

The black snub-nosed monkey , also known as the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey, is an endangered species of primate in the Cercopithecidae family. It is endemic to China, where it is known to the locals as the Yunnan golden hair monkey and the black golden hair monkey...

 from specimens collected by Biet and the Biet's Laughingthrush

White-speckled Laughingthrush

The White-speckled Laughingthrush is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family.It is endemic to China.Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss....

 a Chinese endemic species was another discovery, named by Émile Oustalet

Émile Oustalet

Jean-Frédéric Émile Oustalet was a French zoologist.Oustalet was born at Montbéliard, in the department of Doubs. He studied at the Ecole des Hautes-Etudes and his first scientific work was on the respiratory organs of dragonfly larvae...

 in 1897. His natural history collections from Tibet and China are in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

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in Paris.

Reference

• Adrien Launay (1916) Mémorial de Société DES missions étrangères