Auguste Sallé

Auguste Sallé (1820 - 5 May 1896, Paris) was a French traveller and entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.

Following expeditions to the Southern States of the USA, West India, Central America (especially Mexico ) and Venezuela on behalf of Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat) and accompanied by his mother and a M. Vasselet, Sallé returned to Paris to set up as a natural history and insect dealer.The business thrived and he sold specimens to many very wealthy amateur entomologists Edmond Jean-Baptiste Fleutiaux, Henri Boileau, Neervoort Jacob R. H. van de Poll, René Oberthür, Antoine Henri Grouvelle, Grivard, and André Theryas well as to other Paris dealerships of Henri Donckier de Donceel, Achille Deyrolle and Émile Deyrolle .These specimens together with his private collection are in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Insects sold to Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin are in the Natural History Museum, London. He was a member of the Société entomologique de France and the Entomological Society of London

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Sall

Sall is a village and a church parish in the Favrskov municipality in the Danish region of Midtjylland. In former times the village has been known as Sal, Sald (Pontoppidan) and Salle (Trap). The village itself has a population of 229 (1 January 2014) and is placed in the middle of the Sall Parish. It is situated at 56°16′43″N 9°49′30″E / 56.27861°N 9.82500°E / 56.27861; 9.82500.

In the village there is a church belonging to the Danish Lutheran church, a village hall, and a primary school covering the first seven classes with just under 100 pupils. There is also a Kindergarten and a repair shop.

In the middle of the 20th century the village also had three grocery stores, butcher, baker, post office and several other shops. They are now closed. From 1914 to 1956 Sall was a station on the railroadline Aarhus-Hammel-Thorsø.