Eugène de Pousargues
Eugène de Pousargues was a French zoologist born in Saint-Omer.
From 1885 he was an assistant to Alphonse Milne-Edwards, and served as préparateur at the Laboratoire de Mammalogie of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. He died of septicaemia contracted when performing a dissection.
He was the author of a treatise on mammals from the French Congo titled "Étude sur les mammifères du Congo français", and with Milne-Edwards, he was co-author of "Le rhinopithèque de la vallée du Haut Mékong ",. He also published scientific papers on Thorold's deer, the black-footed mongoose and on new gibbon and guenon species.
An African carnivore known as Pousargues's mongoose, Dologale dybowskii, is named after him.
