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Gabrielle Maud Vassal

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in London for a period of 30 years. She was considered an unusual collector, first because she was female, and second because she was "operating in French territory and sending specimens to a British museum." Many of her letters to the museum are still preserved in their archives. Her specimens
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in London, where she married Joseph Marguerite Jean-Baptiste Vassal, a physician in the French Colonial Service, in 1903. The newlywed couple then moved to Vietnam in 1904 and later went to French colonies in Africa.
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Gulliver, Katrina (2020) Gabrielle Vassal (1880–1959): collecting specimens in Indochina for the British Museum (Natural History), 1900–1915, Archives of Natural History 2020 47:1, 29-40
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Gulliver, Katrina (April 2020). "Gabrielle Vassal (1880–1959): collecting specimens in Indochina for the British Museum (Natural History), 1900–1915".
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included several newly-discovered species, and a number were named after her, including the yellow-cheeked crested gibbon
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Vassal was a keen naturalist and supplied numerous specimens from Vietnam, Gabon and Congo to the
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Three Years In Vietnam 1907-1910: Medicine, Chams And Tribesmen In Nhatrang And Surroundings
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Vassal became known as a successful photographer, author and public speaker.
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A portrait of Vassal was taken in 1928 and originally owned by
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Vassal authored several books, including a novel titled
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Uppingham
Rutland
Hampstead
Natural History Museum
Nomascus gabriellae
World War II
French Resistance
Pinewood Studios
Victoria and Albert Museum
National Portrait Gallery
"Autumn 2016 - The Gallipoli Association"



"Correspondence with Gabrielle Maud Vassal"
doi
10.3366/anh.2020.0619
S2CID
216230204


"Gabrielle Vassal Books"
"Gabrielle M. Vassal (née Candler) - National Portrait Gallery"
ISBN
978-1290822565
ISBN
978-0649079568
Categories
1880 births

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