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Francis de Laporte de Castelnau
François Louis Nompar de Caumont La Force, comte de Castelnau (25 December 1810〔Some sources give his year of birth as 1812.〕 – 4 February 1880) was a French naturalist, known also as François Laporte or Francis de Castelnau.
==Life==
Born in London, he studied natural history in Paris. From 1837 to 1841 he led a scientific expedition to Canada, where he studied the fauna of the Canadian lakes and the political systems of Upper and Lower Canada (roughly corresponding to the modern provinces of Ontario and Quebec) and of the United States.
Castelnau, a French savant, was sent by Louis Philippe, in 1843, with two botanists and a taxidermist, he crossed South America from Rio de Janeiro to Lima, following the watershed between the Amazon and La Plata river systems, and thence to Pará. He was gone for five years.
He served as the French consul in Bahia in 1848; in Siam from 1848 until 1862, and in Melbourne, Australia from 1864 to 1877.
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