Felipe Poey
y Aloy, Cuban naturalist and geographer (La Habana 26 May 1799 – La Habana 28
January 1891) From French
father and Spanish mother His study
about respiration and circulation of aligators had great repercussion With C. Finlay concluded that
female mosquitoes transmitted the yellow fever Showed that many fish characters vary with age such as the size and relative position of eyes and mouth DESCRIBED TAXA
Pisces Genera Epinnula 1854 Erotelis 1860 Gambusia 1854 Girardinus 1854 Gramma 1868 Grammicolepis 1873 Halieutichthys 1863 Hollardia 1861 Joturus 1860 Limia 1854 Lucifuga 1858 Microgobius 1876 Pontinus 1860 Pythonichthys 1868 Rivulus 1860 Verilus 1860 Valid Species About 120 Lepidoptera (1832) Genera Acrolophus Amphonyx Erithales Mastigophorus Syllepis Mollusca Genus Pineria 1854 Species 65 valid species of land mollusks Coleoptera Genus Telacis 1853 Diptera Subgenus Oecacta 1851 HONORS Poeycoptis Jaume
& de la Torre 1972 (Mollusca) His son, Andrés Poey y Aguirre, meteorologist and geographer (La
Habana 15 November 1825 – Paris, France 04 January 1919) CONTRIBUTIONS Developed Poey classification of clouds Instructions et considerations synthetiques sur la nature, la constitution et la forme des nuages (1865) New Classifications of Clouds. Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. (1871) Nouvelle classification des nuages suivis d’instructions pour servir a l’observation des nuages et des courants atmospheriques (1873) First to
study in the world the high clouds in a systematic manner Sur deux nouveau types de nuages observés La Havane denominés Pallium (Pallio cirrus) 1863 Invented the Electrochemical Bath (1852) Description de un ozonographe et d’un
actinographe destines a enregistrer de demi-heure en demi-heure l’ozone
atmosphérique et l’action chimique de la lumiere ambiante (1865) Loi de la coloration et de la décoloration
des etoiles, du soleil et des planetes (1860) Authored Table chronologique de quatre cents
cyclones qui ont sévi dans les Indes Occidentales et dans l’ócean Atlantique
nord: pendant un intervalle de 362 années (depuis 1493 jusqu’en 1855) edited in
Journal Royal Geogr. Soc. London (1855) with great repercussion Proposed a method for extraction of metallic compounds from human body Aplicación de la electroquimica para la extracción de partes metálicas en el cuerpo humano MEMBERSHIP
Member, Royal Academie des Sciences de Paris |
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