Hercule Nicolet

Who was Hercule Nicolet?

Hercule Nicolet was a Swiss lithographer and entomologist who specialized in Thysanura and Collembola.

Hercule Nicolet was the son of Bénédict-Alphonse Nicolet. He was the business partner of Jean Coulin in lithographic firm of Hercule "Nicolet and Coulin fils", pressing the plates for Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchâtel co-edited by Louis Agassiz and many other geological and natural history works. He wrote Recherches pour Servir á l'Histoire des Podurelles. Nouv. Mém. Soc. Helvet. Sci. Nat., 6, p.1-88 and Essai sur une classification des insectes aptères, de l'ordre des Thysanoures. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 2e Série, Tome V, p.335-395.

He was a Member of the Société entomologique de France.