Armand David

Father Armand David (Espelette September 27, 1826 near Bayonne –November 10, 1900 in Paris) was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest as well as a zoologist and a botanist. He discovered many new species in China. The best-known of the animals he discovered are the Giant Panda and the Père David's Deer and the Dove tree, Davidia involucrata

Category:1826 births
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Category:French botanists
Category:French Roman Catholic priests
Category:Roman Catholic missionaries
Category:French zoologists
Category:People from Bayonne