Antoine-Alfred Marche
French naturalist
Died when: 54 years 197 days (654 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Antoine-Alfred Marche (15 February 1844, Boulogne-Billancourt – 31 August 1898, Paris, France) was a French naturalist and explorer.He visited Africa, the Philippines and finally the Mariana Islands.
He made collections of various artifacts.He made a large collection of bird specimens from the Marianas between 22 April 1887 and May 1889 and some of them included new avian species (such as the golden white-eye, a bird described by Émile Oustalet).
In 1887, Marche was awarded the Legion d'Honneur.In his later years, he worked as an archivist in Tunis.
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