Father Armand David was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest as well as a zoologist and a botanist. Born in Espelette near Bayonne, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques "département" of France, he entered the Congregation of the Mission in 1848, having already displayed great fondness for the natural sciences. Ordained in 1862, he was shortly afterwards sent to Beijing, where he began a collection of material for a museum of natural history, mainly zoological, … Wikipedia
The most remarkable of hitherto unknown animals found by David was a species of bear ( ursus melanoleucus , the black-white bear) which is a connecting link between the cats and bears. www.newadvent.org/cathen/04641a.htm
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