Felipe Poey y Aloy, Cuban naturalist and geographer (La Habana 26 May 1799 – La Habana 28 January 1891)
From French father and Spanish mother
His study about respiration and circulation of aligators had great repercussion
With C. Finlay concluded that female mosquitoes transmitted the yellow fever
Showed that many fish characters vary with age such as the size and relative position of eyes and mouth
DESCRIBED TAXA
Pisces
Genera
Epinnula 1854
Erotelis 1860
Gambusia 1854
Girardinus 1854
Gramma 1868
Grammicolepis 1873
Halieutichthys 1863
Hollardia 1861
Joturus 1860
Limia 1854
Lucifuga 1858
Microgobius 1876
Pontinus 1860
Pythonichthys 1868
Rivulus 1860
Verilus 1860
Valid Species
About 120
Lepidoptera (1832)
Genera
Acrolophus
Amphonyx
Erithales
Mastigophorus
Syllepis
Mollusca
Genus
Pineria 1854
Species
65 valid species of land mollusks
Coleoptera
Genus
Telacis 1853
Diptera
Subgenus
Oecacta 1851
HONORS
Poeycoptis Jaume & de la Torre 1972 (Mollusca)
His son, Andrés Poey y Aguirre, meteorologist and geographer (La Habana 15 November 1825 – Paris, France 04 January 1919)
CONTRIBUTIONS
Developed Poey classification of clouds
Instructions et considerations synthetiques sur la nature, la constitution et la forme des nuages (1865)
New Classifications of Clouds. Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. (1871)
Nouvelle classification des nuages suivis d’instructions pour servir a l’observation des nuages et des courants atmospheriques (1873)
First to study in the world the high clouds in a systematic manner
Sur deux nouveau types de nuages observés La Havane denominés Pallium (Pallio cirrus) 1863
Invented the Electrochemical Bath (1852)
Description de un ozonographe et d’un actinographe destines a enregistrer de demi-heure en demi-heure l’ozone atmosphérique et l’action chimique de la lumiere ambiante (1865)
Loi de la coloration et de la décoloration des etoiles, du soleil et des planetes (1860)
Authored Table chronologique de quatre cents cyclones qui ont sévi dans les Indes Occidentales et dans l’ócean Atlantique nord: pendant un intervalle de 362 années (depuis 1493 jusqu’en 1855) edited in Journal Royal Geogr. Soc. London (1855) with great repercussion
Proposed a method for extraction of metallic compounds from human body
Aplicación de la electroquimica para la extracción de partes metálicas en el cuerpo humano
MEMBERSHIP
Member, Royal Academie des Sciences de Paris