Sciences Nat was theacademic publisher specialising inentomology of theSocieté Sciences Nat. The society was established in 1971 and based in the rue de la Mare in Paris. Three years later it moved to the rue des Alouettes and later toVenette nearCompiègne. The company was directed first by Roger Ehrman and then by Jacques Rigout.

In 1981 the publication ofThe Beetles of the World started, a series of 30 volumes devoted to theColeoptera. The 24 first were published by Sciences Nat, the later ones byHillside Books, Canterbury.^[1]

Sciences Nat also published several entomological monographs, mainly in English, such as:

• The Parnassiinae of the World, Jean-Claude Weiss. The first 2 parts published by Sciences Nat, the parts 3 and 4 by Hillside Books, Canterbury, the 5th part by Goecke & Evers, Germany.
• The genusMorpho, Patrick Blandin. The first 2 parts published by Sciences Nat, the remaining by Hillside Books, Canterbury.
• Heliconius and related genera,Helmuth and Ruth Holzinger.
• The genusAgrias, Paul Barselou
• The genusPerisama, Stéphane Attal and Alain Crosson du Cormier

Between 1972 and 1995, Sciences Nat also published the journalBulletin de la Société Sciences Nat,^[2] in which a history of Sciences Nat was given in a 1992 interview with Rigout.^[3]Between 1982 and 1988 Sciences Nat published three volumes of the journalMiscellanea Entomologica.

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