Alphonse Dubois (1839 - 1921)

Alphonse Dubois

Alphonse Dubois, full name Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois, was a Belgian naturalist and physician.

Alphonse Dubois had a doctorate in medicine and in 1869 became curator of vertebrate animals at the Royal Museum of Natural History in Brussels. He worked with his father, the academician Charles-Frédéric Dubois (1804-1867), on the publication Les Oiseaux de l'Europe et leurs œufs (The Birds of Europe and their Eggs), completing it after his father's death. The book consisted of two volumes, the second of which consisted of illustrations by Dubois Sr.