Félix Biet
Félix Biet was a French missionary from Paris Foreign Missions Society and naturalist.Life
Biet was born in 1838. He was ordained as a priest in 1864. He was next sent to Tatsienlu in Tibet as a missionary and he became the Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Thibet, now Diocese of Kangding, in 1898. Félix Biet collected butterflies for Charles Oberthür who dedicated three new species to him. Alphonse Milne-Edwards described the Chinese mountain cat and the black snub-nosed monkey,, the latter collected and sent by Jean-André Soulié. The Biet's laughingthrush a Chinese endemic species was another discovery, named by Émile Oustalet in 1897. Those natural history collections from Tibet and China are in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.
He was succeeded by Pierre-Philippe Giraudeau.
