Armand David

…Stötzner expedition of 1913–15, although Armand David, a Vincentian missionary, discovered some panda furs in 1869.

…1865 by a French missionary, Armand David, and specimens were classified the following year by the French naturalist Henri Milne-Edwards. From 1869 to 1890 several Père David’s deer were brought to European zoos. Most of the Chinese herd died in a flood in 1895, and the remaining deer were killed…