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Authorised form of nameBeneden; Pierre Joseph Van (1809 - 1894)
Other forms of namePierre Joseph
Other forms of surnameVan Beneden
Dates1809 - 1894
NationalityBelgian
Place of birthMechelen [ie Malines], Belgium
Date of birth19 December 1809
Place of deathLouvain, Belgium
Date of death08 January 1894
Research fieldZoology
ActivityEducation:
MD
Career:
Curator, Natural History Museum, University of Louvain (1831); Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, Catholic University of Louvain (1836); died of bronchitis
Memberships:
Belgian Academy of Sciences (President 1881)
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election08/04/1875
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1894-1895 vol 57 pp xx-xxii signed by W H F
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/29680949
CodeNA6525
Archives associated with this Fellow
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M/006Beneden, Pierre J van1877
EC/1875/04Beneden, Pierre Joseph Van: certificate of election to the Royal Society
M/007Beneden, Pierre J van
NLB/8/851Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons10 January 1894
MC/10/243Letter from J [Joseph] Van Beneden, Louvain, to A [Alexander] Williamson, [Foreign] Secretary of the Royal Society, London23 April 1875
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
MC/11/43Letter from [Évariste] Warlomont, and Dr J van Raemdonck, Saint-Nicolas, Waas, to [Joseph Dalton Hooker], President of the Royal Society and to its Members7 April 1877
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
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