Amédée Galzin

In 1878 he obtained his degree from the veterinary college in Toulouse.

From 1879 to 1905, he served as a military veterinarian, becoming a knight of the Legion of Honour in 1899.

[1] With Abbé Hubert Bourdot, he was co-author of a series of publications (11 parts, 1909 to 1925) involving Hymenomycetes native to France; all parts being published in the Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France.

With Bourdot, he also wrote Heterobasidiae nondum descriptae (Descriptions of a few jelly fungi).

[2][3] With Bourdot, he was the taxonomic authority of the fungi genus Oxyporus,[4] as well as of numerous mycological species.