Antoine Pierre Henri (Henri) Filhol (1843–1902)

French zoologist and vertebrate palaeontologist. Studied medicine. Investigated fossil mammals in Languedoc and the Pyrenees. Naturalist and geologist with the French commission to observe the transit of Venus, based on Campbell island, Pacific Ocean, 1875; travelled to New Zealand, Fiji, New Caledonia, and the United States before returning to France. Professor of geology, Toulouse University, 1879. Zoologist with the hydrographic expedition on the Talisman, 1883. Assistant-director of the laboratory of anatomical zoology, Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Paris, 1884; professor of comparative anatomy, 1886.