Napoleon general was prolific beetle collector
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 16:00
in Biology & Nature
By Megan GannonLiveScienceCount Pierre Dejean may have been a general in Napoleon Bonaparte's army, but he was perhaps more intimidating as a beetle collector.By the time he died in 1845, Dejean had amassed a daunting collection of 24,643 species of beetles and more than 118,000 specimens, some of them scooped up from battlefields. At the time, it was the largest beetle collection ever assembled b...