Eugène Boullet

Eugène Anatole Auguste Victor Boullet (1 July 1847, in Acheux – 1923) was a French naturalist, entomologist and collector.

"Around 1905, a man who did much for the Museum and was one of its first "associates", M. E. Boullet, banker at Corbie, decided to give to our institution his collection of Lepidoptera, offering in addition to helping with its inclusion in ours.

Mr. Boullet was paying a technician, charged exclusively with the preparation of butterflies; every month, I sent to Corbie a stock of specimens of the family being classified.

"[1] The totality of Boullet's world insect collection (25,000 Lepidoptera notably rich in specialist collections of Neotropical Hesperiidae and Papilionidae; Heliconiinae and Satyridae and containing many rare and expensive Morpho, Agrias and Ornithoptera) was given, on his death and with a sum of money for its maintenance to Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris where it is now held.

In Corbie he maintained an orchidarium containing 4,000 species, cultivars and hybrids and a glasshouse for Nymphaeaceae including especially Victoria lilies.