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Julien Francois Desjardins

- Julien François Desjardins (27 July 1799 Flaq - 18 April 1840 Paris) was a French zoologist, the son of Julien Jouan Desjardins (1766-1853) and Henriette Emilie Marcotte. - He embarked on a career in civil engineering, but soon realised that he should return to his original passion of natural history - He was the first secretary of this Society and editor of the publication "//Rapport annuel sur les travaux de la Société d'histoire naturelle de l'île Maurice//" - His premature death led to his manuscript's being acquired from his widow, Julie Renée Adélaïde Maréchal - Desjardins made a thorough search for fossils in his home region of Flacq, and found fragments of the osseous cover and humerus bones of endemic tortoises. -