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| Revue zoologique | |
|---|---|
| Title | Revue zoologique |
| Discipline | Zoology |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Société zoologique (historical) |
| Country | France |
| History | 19th–20th century |
| Frequency | Quarterly (historical) |
Revue zoologique
Revue zoologique was a French zoological periodical founded in the 19th century that published taxonomic descriptions, faunal surveys, and anatomical studies. It appeared alongside contemporaneous publications such as Journal de Conchyliologie, Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, and Annales des Sciences Naturelles, serving authors associated with institutions like the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne University, École Normale Supérieure, and regional museums in Lyon, Bordeaux, and Marseille.
The journal originated in the milieu shaped by figures connected to Georges Cuvier's legacy, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and the network of naturalists active after the July Monarchy. Early contributors included associates of Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Émile Blanchard, Henri Milne-Edwards, and correspondents linked to the Zoological Society of London, Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft, and the American Society of Naturalists. Throughout the late 19th century the periodical paralleled initiatives by Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Ernst Haeckel, and later engaged with revisions influenced by Thomas Henry Huxley, Richard Owen, Louis Agassiz, and explorers such as Jules Dumont d'Urville, Charles Baudelaire (cultural context), and Alexandre Laborde. During the interwar period editors negotiated changing paradigms introduced by Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, and Ernst Mayr. The journal's lifecycle intersected with institutional changes at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the evolution of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, and wartime disruptions associated with World War I and World War II.
Revue zoologique published original descriptions, monographs, faunal lists, morphological analyses, and paleontological notes referencing taxa studied by authorities like Georges Cuvier, Jean Louis Gaspard Bory de Saint-Vincent, Pierre André Latreille, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and Adolphe Quetelet. Its contents crossed domains linked to contributors from the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, field collectors associated with expeditions such as those by Paul-Émile Victor, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and colonial surveys tied to administrations in Algeria, Madagascar, Indochina, and Guadeloupe. Articles engaged taxonomists debating nomenclature influenced by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, and anatomists referencing work by Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, and Alfred Wegener in broader biogeographical discussions with citations to Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Charles Lyell.
Publication workflows involved editorial boards connected to Parisian learned societies including the Société linnéenne de Paris, Académie des Sciences, and provincial societies in Rouen, Toulouse, and Nancy. Printers and distributors linked to houses in Paris coordinated with libraries like the Natural History Museum, London, Smithsonian Institution, Zoological Society of London and university collections at Oxford University, Cambridge University, Harvard University, and University of Vienna. Editors corresponded with prominent taxonomists such as Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Ferdinand von Mueller, Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee, and field naturalists including Auguste Forel, Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, and Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers. The journal's bibliographic practices reflected developments in citation and indexing promoted by institutions like the Royal Society and the Institut de France.
The periodical hosted species descriptions and revisions that later intersected with classic treatments by Carl Linnaeus, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis, and modern syntheses by Ernst Mayr and G. Ledyard Stebbins. Noteworthy articles addressed systematics in groups studied by specialists such as Jean Victoire Audouin, Pierre Dolfuss, Alcide d'Orbigny, Auguste Duméril, Gabriel Bibron, Frédéric Cuvier, and Georges Bizet (cultural milieu). Contributions included regional checklists comparable to works in the Faune de France series and revisions that paralleled monographs by Louis Pasteur (contextual sciences), Rodolphe Meyer and faunal inventories used by curators at the NHM Tring, Musée de l'Homme, and botanical collaborations with Élisabeth Tillion (anthropological intersection). Several papers influenced later syntheses by Thomas Say and John Edward Gray.
Scholarly reception connected the periodical to debates among proponents of Darwinism like Thomas Henry Huxley and critics such as Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's followers, while also informing faunal management and colonial science policies overseen by administrators in French West Africa, French Indochina, and museum networks in Algiers and Pondichéry. The journal's taxonomic contributions were cited in major reference works edited by Pierre de Fermat (historical archives), George S. Myers, Ernst Mayr, Julio Antonio Coello, and catalogs compiled by the Zoological Record, the Index Animalium, and national checklists maintained by institutions like the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (collaboration on biotic inventories).
Back issues have been catalogued in repositories such as the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Natural History Museum, London archives, and university libraries at Sorbonne University, University of Paris, Harvard University, Yale University, University of Tokyo, University of São Paulo, and University of Cape Town. Indexing appeared in services like the Zoological Record, library catalogues of the British Library, Library of Congress, and databases managed by the Royal Society and the Institut national de la recherche agronomique.
Category:Zoology journals