Biography
Adrien Louis Jean François Sumichrast, Swiss-born Mexican naturalist and collector (Yvorne, Vaud Canton 15 October 1828 – Tonale, Chiapas State 26 December 1882)
Performed collections of many animal and plant species mainly birds and reptiles
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
Notes sur une collection de reptiles et de batraciens de la partie occidentale de l’isthme de Tehauntepec. Bull. Soc. Zool. France 15:162-90, 1906
Observations sur les moeurs de l’Heloderma horridum. C.R. Hebd. Seances Acad. Sci. 80:676-9, 1875
The geographical distribution of the native birds of the Department of Vera Cruz with a list of the migratory species. Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1:542-63, 1869
Note on habits of certain species of Mexican Hymenoptera. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 1868
On the habits of the Mexican species of the genus Ecitron Latr. Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc. 1868
Notes on habits of some Mexican Reptiles. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 3(13):497-507, 1864
Note sur les moeurs des quelques reptiles du Mexique. Bibl. Univ. Rev. Suisse 19:45-61, 1864
HONORS
Sumichrastia Townsend 1916 (Diptera)