Armando Dugand
Armando Dugand was a Colombian botanist, geobotanist, and ornithologist.
Dugand's father, François Victor Dugand, was a successful French banker; his mother was Reyes Geneco Coronado. Dugand was educated in France and in the United States. In 1927, he married Sara Roncallo.
In 1940 he co-founded the scientific journal Caldasia. He also founded two other scientific journals: Mutisia and ''Lozania.
He was director of the Institute of Natural Sciences of the National University of Colombia from 1940 to 1953.
