Eure-et-Loir
Eure-et-Loir (, locally: ) is a French department, named after the Eure and Loir rivers. It is located in the region of Centre-Val de Loire. In 2019, Eure-et-Loir had a population of 431,575.Department
France
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– 6 December 1935 in
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...
,
Bouches-du-Rhône
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Paris
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. Afterwards, he was a professor of botany at the Faculté des Sciences in
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...
(1894-1935).JSTOR Global Plants Jumelle, Henri Lucien (1866-1935) From 1898 to 1916, he was assistant director, then director of the ''Musée colonial et du Jardin botanique'' in Marseille.Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France
He held a deep interest in applied botany, publishing numerous treatises on the agricultural aspects of various plants.WorldCat Search published works During his career, he worked closely with botanist Joseph Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie, who sent him botanical material from
Madagascar
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. As a taxonomist, he circumscribed many new species native to Madagascar.
From 1922 to 1935, he was a correspondent-member of the
Académie des Sciences
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Orchidaceae
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Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering ...
), named by
Rudolf Schlechter
Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter (16 October 1872 – 16 November 1925) was a German taxonomist, botanist, and author of several works on orchids.
He went on botanical expeditions in Africa, Indonesia, New Guinea, South and Central America and ...
Malvaceae
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), named by
Bénédict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner
Bénédict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner (1873-1959) was a Swiss botanist and plant taxonomist.Nationaal Herbarium NederlandBiographical page retrieved 2009-03-30
A native of Saint-Gall, he studied theology and natural sciences in Geneva. In 1896 he ...
, 1924.
Selected works
* ''Recherches physiologiques sur le développement des plantes annuelles'', 1889.
* ''Le laboratoire de biologie végétale de Fontainebleau dirigé par Gaston Bonnier'', 1890.
* ''Les cultures coloniales'' (8 volumes), 1901–1927.
* ''Les ressources agricoles et forestières des colonies françaises'', 1907.
* ''Les plantes à tubercules alimentaires des climats tempérés et des pays chauds'', 1910.
* ''Catalogue descriptif des collections botaniques du Musée colonial de Marseille : Madagascar et la Réunion'', 1916.