Internet, www.wikipedia.org le 30 mars 2005
Information trouvée : Father Armand David (18261900) was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest and zoologist
and botanist. Born in Espelette near Bayonne, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques dp̌artement
of France, he entered the Congregation of the Mission in 1848, having already displayed
great fondness for the natural sciences. Ordained in 1862, he was shortly afterwards
sent to Beijing, where he began a collection of material for a museum of natural history,
mainly zoological, but in which botany, geology, and palaeontology were also well
represented.