Du Chaillu prozkoumal oblast kolem řeky Ogooué a stal se pravděpodobně prvním moderním Evropanem, který viděl na vlastní oči gorilu. [1 ] Popsal také jako první vydříka hbitého a přivezl sbírky přírodnin obsahující druhy jako komba…
Paul BelloniDu Chaillu (du shay’ yu) was "an African traveler, discoverer of the gorillas, writer of children's stories, and one of the most talked of men of his time." Du Chaillu became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European…
Paul BelloniDu Chaillu (1831 – 1903) was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of…
Photographer and inventor Born in Lyons in 1798, Claudet moved to London in 1827 where he became a glass merchant in a Holborn-based firm. He learned photography from Louis Daguerre in the late 1830s, and then established his first…