Achille Richard was a French botanist, botanical illustrator and physician (27 April 1794 in

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– 5 October 1852).

Biography

Achille was the son of the botanist Louis-Claude Marie Richard (1754–1821). He was a pharmacist in the French navy, and a member of several well-known societies of that time. He became a botanical leader, and his books remain valued for their clarity and precision. On 24 February 1834 he was made a member of the French Academy of Sciences (Botanical Section). He was also a member of the French National Academy of Medicine. He studied and described several genera of

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s that take his abbreviation in the generic name, among them ''

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''.

Works

* 1819 ''Nouveaux Éléments de Botanique'' (New Elements of Botany), Paris. (11th Edition, 1876, available online a
Gallica
* 182
''Monographie du genre Hydrocotyle de la famille des ombellifères''
(Monograph of genus ''

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'' of the family Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae) (available online at Gallica) * 1828 ''Monographie des orchidées des îles de France et de Bourbon'' (Monograph of orchids of the islands of France and Réunion), * 1829 ''Mémoire sur la famille des rubiacées contenant la description générale de cette famille et les caractères des genres qui la composent'' (Memory on the family Rubiaceae, containing the general description of this family and characters of genera that compose it), (available online at Gallica) * 1834
Essai d'un Flore de la Nouvelle-Zelande
', part 1 of ''Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe'' * 1839–184
''Voyage en Abyssinie''
a natural history * 1845 ''Histoire Physique, Politique et Naturelle de L'Ile de Cuba (Ed. Sagra, Ramón de la). Botanique. Plantes Vasculaires.'' (Physical, Political and Natural History of the island of

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, Botany. Vascular plants.) (available online at Gallica)

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External links

Biodiversity Library.org: Books by Achille Richard
French taxonomists 1794 births 1852 deaths Botanists with author abbreviations Botanical illustrators Members of the French Academy of Sciences 19th-century French botanists {{France-botanist-stub