Talk:Hippolyte Louis Gory

Wrong dates for publications

According to the title pages on BHL: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/110141, Castelnau & Gory's 'Histoire naturelle et iconographie des insectes coléoptères' was published in 1837 (Tome I) and 1841 (Tomes 3-4). On Gory's Wikispecies page, Tome I is dated 1835 and Tome 2 1837 (Tome 3 is not listed and Tome 4 is correctly dated 1841). Can someone please fix this? Probably all taxon pages that also refer here are wrong as well, so I think clicking on 'Edit' and changing this myself may cause more problems than it solves. I do not know the correct way. Thank you. 160.242.98.188 09:44, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

According to {{Bousquet, 2016}} (which is useful for checking publication dates of old books related to Coleoptera), it turns out the publication dates for this series of books is more complex than a single year each, because the series was originally issued in livraisons (52 in total!). Tome 1 was published 1835–1838, Tome 2 was published 1836–1840, Tome 4 was published [1840]–1841, and Tome 3 was a reissue of Laporte & Gory's "Monographie du genre Clytus". Monster Iestyn (talk) 10:46, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Either way I'll be happy to fix the dates for you, though it's possible the taxon pages' years are actually all correct. Monster Iestyn (talk) 10:47, 8 July 2023 (UTC)