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HUBER, FRANCOIS (1750-1831)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 845 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUBER, See also:FRANCOIS (1750-1831) , Swiss naturalist, was See also:born at See also:Geneva on the 2nd of See also:July 1750. He belonged to a See also:family which had already made its See also:mark in the See also:literary and scientific See also:world: his See also:great-aunt, See also:Marie Huber (1695–1753), was known as a voluminous writer on religious and theological subjects, and as the translator and epitomizer of the Spectator (See also:Amsterdam, 3 vols., 1753); and his See also:father See also:Jean Huber (1721–1786), who had served for many years as a soldier, was a prominent member of the coterie at Ferney, distinguishing himself by his Observations sur le vol See also:des oiseaux (Geneva, 1784). Francois Huber was only fifteen years old when he began to suffer from an See also:affection of the eyes which gradually resulted in See also:total See also:blindness; but, with the aid of his wife, Marie Aimee Lullin, and of his servant, Francois Burnens, he was able to carry out investigations that laid the See also:foundations of our scientific knowledge of the See also:life See also:history of the See also:honey-See also:bee. His Nouvelles Observations sur See also:les abeilles was published at Geneva in 1702 (Eng. trans., 18o6). He assisted Jean See also:Senebier in his See also:Mena. sur l'See also:influence de Pair, &c., clans la germination (Geneva, 'Soo); and he also wrote " Mein. sur 1'origine de la cire " (Bibliotheque britannique, tome See also:xxv.), a " Lettre a M. Pictet sur certains dangers que courent les abeilles " (Bib. brit. See also:xxvii), and "Nouvelles Observ. rel. au See also:sphinx See also:Atropos " (Bib. brit. xxvii). He died at See also:Lausanne on the 22nd of See also:December 1831. De See also:Candolle gave his name to a genus of Brazilian trees—Iluberia laurina.

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