Alfredo Dugès; (April 16, 1826 - January 7, 1910) was a French-born, Mexican physician and naturalist

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 who was born in Montpellier

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. He was the son of zoologist Antoine Louis Dugès

Antoine Louis Dugès

Antoine Louis Dugès was a French obstetrician and naturalist who was born in Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes. He was the father of zoologist Alfredo Dugès and a nephew to obstetrician Marie Louise Lachapelle .He studied medicine in Paris, began working as a prosector in 1820, and received his...

 (1797-1838). Alfredo Dugès is largely remembered for his extensive studies of Mexican herpetology

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.

He studied medicine at the University of Paris

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, and in 1852 emigrated to Mexico. He settled in Guanajuato

Guanajuato

Guanajuato officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 46 municipalities and its capital city is Guanajuato....

, where he worked as an obstetrician, and gave classes in natural history

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 at the Escuela de Estudios Superiores de Guanajuato. With his brother, entomologist Eugenio Dugès (1826-1895), he organized frequent field trips in order to collect specimens.

Dugès published numerous scientific papers in the fields of herpetology

Herpetology

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, botany

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, entomology

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, et al. At Guanajuato, he was director of the local museum, later named the Museo Alfredo Dugès in his honor.

• Books about Alfredo Dugès:
• "Early foundations of Mexican herpetology; an annotated and indexed bibliography of the herpetological publications of Alfredo Dugès, 1826-1910", by Hobart M. Smith and Rozella B. Smith.