Eugène Jacob de Cordemoy
(1835 in
Saint-André, Réunion – 25 April 1911 in
Hellbourg,
Salazie,
Réunion
Réunion (; ; ; known as before 1848) is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department and region of France. Part of the Mascarene Islands, it is located approximately east of the isl ...
) was a French physician and
botanist
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.
He had a particular interest in
orchids
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, continuing the work of
Charles Frappier. He is the author of ''Flore de l'île de la Réunion'' (English: ''Flora of the island of Réunion'') published in 1895. He also studied birds.
Bibliography
* ''Rapport sur la maladie de la canne à sucre; lu à la Chambre d'agriculture à sa session de juin 1868'',
Saint-Denis; G. Lahuppe, 1868.
* ''Rapport de la commission chargée d'étudier la catastrophe du Grand-Sablé, à Salazie'', (Rapporteur : Dr Jacob de Cordemoy) Saint-Denis (Réunion) : impr. de G. Lahuppe, 1876.
* ''Flore de l'Île de la Réunion. Fascicule I, Cryptogames vasculaires, (fougeres, lycopodes, sélaginelles)'', Saint-Denis, Réunion : Typographie de la Vérité, 1891.
* ''Flore de l'île de la Réunion (phanérogames, cryptogames, vasculaires, muscinées) avec l'indication des propriétés économiques & industrielles des plantes'', Paris, P. Klinsksieck, 1895.
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1835 births
1911 deaths
19th-century French botanists
Orchidologists
Botanists active in Africa
Flora of Réunion
People from Réunion
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