Amédée Guillaume Auguste (Amédée) Coutance (1824–1915)

French naturalist. Studied at the school of pharmacy, Brest, 1844–6. Entered the medical corps of the navy and travelled extensively, notably to Tahiti; became a botanist on his return to France in 1851. Spent four years in Martinique before becoming a professor of natural history at the naval school of medicine at Brest, 1866–82.