Charles Emile (Emile) Blanchard (1819/20–1900)

French naturalist. Worked at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris, from the age of 14; accompanied Henri Milne-Edwards on an expedition to the coast of Sicily. Assistant to Milne-Edwards and Armand de Quatrefages at the Muséum and at the École normale supérieure, 1847. Member, Académie des sciences, from 1862. Administrative professor at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, 1862–96. Professor, Institut agronomique, 1876–88. Published extensively on entomology, agriculture, and geology, and against evolution.