What is René-Primevère Lesson?
[[Image:Lesson René 1794-1849.png|thumb|250px|René Lesson.]] '''René Primevère Lesson''' (March 20, 1794 - April 28, 1849) was a [[France|French]] [[surgery|surgeon]] and [[natural history|naturalist]]. He was born at Rochefort, [[Charente-Maritime]]. At the age of sixteen he entered the Naval Medical School in Rochefort. He served in the [[French Navy]] during the [[Napoleonic Wars]]. Lesson was the first naturalist to see live [[birds of paradise]] in the [[Moluccas]] and [[New Guinea]]. In the field of [[herpetology]] he described many new species of amphibians<ref>Amphibian Species of the World. http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/.</ref> and reptiles.<ref>The Reptile Database. http://www.reptile-database.org.</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lesson, Rene-Primevere}} [[Category:1794 births]] [[Category:1849 deaths]] [[Category:French military people]] [[Category:French naturalists]] [[Category:People from Charente-Maritime]] [[Category:French surgeons]] [[Category:French zoologists]] {{bio-stub}}