Felipe Poey (May 26, 1799 – January 28, 1891) was a Cuban zoologist .
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8-603: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Felipe Poey Poey was born in Havana , the son of French and Spanish parents. He spent several years (1804 to 1807) of his life in Pau then studied law in Madrid . He became a lawyer in Spain but was forced to leave due to his liberal ideas , returning to Cuba in 1823. He began to concentrate on
12-570: The first professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Havana . He also took part in the creation of the Academy of Science (natural, physical and medical) of Havana and was a president of the Anthropological Society. (selected) Cuba commemorated the 175th anniversary of Poey's birth by issuing a series of six stamps and a stamp sheet in 1974. This same country celebrated
16-546: The study of the natural science and traveled to France in 1825 with his wife. He began writing on the butterflies of Cuba and acquiring knowledge on fish , later supplying Georges Cuvier and Valenciennes with fish specimens from Cuba. He took part in the foundation, in 1832, of the Société Entomologique de France . Poey returned to Cuba in 1833 where he founded the Museum of Natural History in 1839. In 1842, he became
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