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Père Jean Marie Delavay
Père Jean-Marie Delavay (28 December 1834 – 31 December 1895) was a French missionary, explorer and botanist. He was perhaps the first Western explorer of the region which is now encompassed by the ''Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas''. Delavay was born in Les Gets, Haute-Savoie, in 1834. As a missionary for Missions Etrangères de Paris (Foreign Missions of Paris) he was sent to China in 1867, serving first in Guangdong, then moving to north-western Yunnan. While in France in 1881, on a break from his duties, Delavay met the natural history collector and fellow missionary Père Armand David, who had made his final collecting expedition in China in the 1870s. David encouraged Delavay to continue his collecting work and send specimens to the Paris Museum of Natural History. In 1888 he contracted bubonic plague; he survived the initial onslaught of the disease, but never fully recovered. This did not stop his explorations, however, eventually he travelled to H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marie Delavay-portrait
Jean-Marie is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Jean-Marie Abgrall (born 1950), a French psychiatrist, criminologist, specialist in forensic medicine, cult expert, and graduate in criminal law * Jean-Marie Charles Abrial (1879–1962), a French Admiral and Minister of Marine of France * Jean-Marie Andre (born 1944), a Belgian scientist * Jean-Marie Auberson (1920–2004), a Swiss conductor and violinist * Jean-Marie Balestre (born 1921), a president of FISA * Jean-Marie Basset (born 1943), a French chemist * Jean-Marie Beaupuy (born 1943), a French politician * Jean-Marie Benjamin, a priest * Jean-Marie Beurel (1813–1872), a French Roman Catholic priest * Jean-Marie Bockel (born 1950), a French politician * Jean-Marie Buchet, a Belgian film director * Jean-Marie Cavada (born 1940), a French politician * Jean-Marie Charpentier (20th century), a French architect and urban planner * Jean-Marie Chopin (19th century), a Russian explorer of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
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People From Haute-Savoie
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1895 Deaths
Events January–March * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. * January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty is founded in England by Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. * January 13 – First Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Coatit – Italian forces defeat the Ethiopians. * January 17 – Félix Faure is elected President of the French Republic, after the resignation of Jean Casimir-Perier. * February 9 – Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts. * February 11 – The lowest ever UK temperature of is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire. This record is equalled in 1982, and again in 1995. * February 14 – Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy ''The Importance of Being Earnest'', is first shown at St James's The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1834 Births
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French Explorers
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Roman Catholic Missionaries In Tibet
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Roman Catholic Missionaries In China
* William of Rubruck (1253) * Giovanni di Monte Corvino O.F.M. (1294) * Arnold of Cologne (1303) * Andrew of Perugia (1307) * Odoric of Pordenone O.F.M. (1322) * St. Francis Xavier S.J. (1552) * Michele Ruggieri S.J. (1579) * Matteo Ricci S.J. (1582) * Alessandro Valignano S.J. (1570s–1580s) * Andrius Rudamina S.J. (1620-1630s) - Lithuanian Jesuit missionary * Johann Adam Schall von Bell S.J. (1592–1666) - German Jesuit missionary and astronomer * Wenceslas Pantaleon Kirwitzer S.J. (1618–1620) * Alexandre de Rhodes S.J. (1630) * Francis Ferdinand de Capillas O.P. (1642–48) * Martino Martini S.J. (1640–1661) * Thomas Pereira S.J. (1645–1708) * Ferdinand Verbiest S.J. (1659) * Caspar Castner S.J. (1696–1709) * Giuseppe Castiglione S.J. (1715) * Matteo Ripa (16??–17??) * Jean Joseph Marie Amiot S.J. (1750) * Michel Benoist S.J. (1774–1775) * Pierre-Marie-Alphonse Favier C.M. (served 1862–1905) * Johann Baptist von Anzer S.V.D. (1851–1903) * Armand David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botanists Active In China
This is a list of botanists who have Wikipedia articles, in alphabetical order by surname. The List of botanists by author abbreviation is mostly a list of plant taxonomists because an author receives a standard abbreviation only when that author originates a new plant name. Botany is one of the few sciences which can boast, since the Middle Ages, of a substantial participation by women. A *Erik Acharius * Julián Acuña Galé * Johann Friedrich Adam *Carl Adolph Agardh * Jacob Georg Agardh * Nikolaus Ager * William Aiton * Frédéric-Louis Allamand * Carlo Allioni * Prospero Alpini * Benjamin Alvord * Adeline Ames * Eliza Frances Andrews * Agnes Arber * Giovanni Arcangeli *David Ashton *William Guybon Atherstone *Anna Atkins *Daniel E. Atha * Armen Takhtajan B * Ernest Brown Babcock *Churchill Babington *Curt Backeberg * James Eustace Bagnall *Jacob Whitman Bailey * Liberty Hyde Bailey * Ibn al-Baitar * Giovanni Battista Balbis * John Hutton Balfour * Joseph Banks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century French Botanists
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Paeonia Delavayi
''Paeonia delavayi'' is a low woody shrub belonging to the peonies, that is endemic to China. The vernacular name in China is 滇牡丹 (diān mǔdan). In English it is called Delavay's tree peony, Delavay peony, Dian peony, and dian mu dan. It mostly has red brown to yellow, nodding flowers from mid May to mid June. The light green, delicate looking deciduous leaves consist of many segments, and are alternately arranged on new growth. Description ''Paeonia delavayi'' is a deciduous hairless shrub of ¼-1¾ m high. Plants have creeping stolons and the roots are thick because they are fused together. It mainly reproduces by growing into large clones like this. Young twigs are light green, or tinged purple, rarely branching, erect, generally on top of perennial, stick-like, grayish to light brown stems. In lower plants, woody parts may not be present above ground. Like all diploid peonies, it has ten chromosomes (2n=10). Leaves The leaves are arranged alternately aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnolia Delavayi
''Magnolia delavayi'' is a species of flowering plant in the genus '' Magnolia''. It is known by the common names of Chinese evergreen magnolia or Delavay's magnolia. It was named after Father Delavay, French Catholic missionary in China, who collected it. Description ''Magnolia delavayi'' is a small evergreen tree in height with gray to grayish-black bark. The leaves are ovate to ovate-oblong, 10–20 cm (rarely to 32 cm) long and 5–10 cm (rarely to 20 cm) broad, tough, leathery, with a 5–7 cm petiole. The flowers are fragrant, cup-shaped, 15–25 cm broad, with nine thick, creamy white to pink tepals; stamens ca. 210 and ovoid gynoecium with ca. 100 carpels. Distribution and habitat ''Magnolia delavayi'' is native to southern China, occurring in Guizhou, Sichuan and Yunnan at 1,500-2,800 m of elevation. Ecology In its native habitat, flowering occurs from April to June. It grows on wet slopes on limestone areas. Cultivation ''Mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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