Before revision: The facility traces it roots back a laboratory established in 1882 by Hermann Fol with the encouragement of Charles Darwin and continues to work to this day with embryonic and planktonic animals collected in Villefranche Bay, including ascidians, sea urchins and jellyfish.Official site History In 1809 Charles Alexandre Lesueur and François Péron are credited with discovering the exceptional diversity of zooplankton in the bays of Villefranche and Cap de Nice and are credited with an illustrated account of their studies entitled "Etude des Invertébrés pélagiques du Cap de Nice et de la Baie de Villefranche" In the 1850s, the zoologist Karl Vogt visited Villefranche and studied the planktonic fauna found in the bay, notably the gelatinous zooplankton.
After revision: The facility traces it roots back a laboratory established in 1882 by Hermann Fol with the encouragement of Charles Darwin and continues to work to this day with organisms from the Bay ofprotists, Villefranche Bay, including ascidians, sea urchins and jellyfish.Official site History In 1809 Charles Alexandre Lesueur and François Péron are credited with discovering the exceptional diversity of zooplankton in the bays of Villefranche and Cap de Nice and are credited with an illustrated account of their studies entitled "Etude des Invertébrés pélagiques du Cap de Nice et de la Baie de Villefranche" In the 1850s, the zoologist Karl Vogt visited Villefranche and studied the planktonic fauna found in the bay, notably the gelatinous zooplankton.