Henri Ernest Baillon (; 30 November 1827 in

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– 19 July 1895 in

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) was a French botanist and physician. Baillon spent his academic career teaching natural history and publishing numerous works on botany. He was appointed to the

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in 1867, joined the

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in 1894 and put together the ''Dictionnaire de botanique'' with

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by Umberto Quattrocchi

Select works

* ''Étude générale du groupe des Euphorbiacées'' (1858) * ''Monographie des Buxacées et des Stylocérée'' (1859) * ''Recherches organogéniques sur la fleur femelle des Conifères'' (1860) * ''Recherches sur l’organisation, le développement et l’anatomie des Caprifoliacées'' (1864) * ''Adansonia, recueil périodique d’observations botaniques'' (12 volumes, 1866–1879)
''Histoire des plantes'' (thirteen volumes, 1867-1895)
* ''Dictionnaire de botanique'' (four volumes, 1876–1892) * ''Histoire naturelle des plantes de Madagascar'' (three volumes) * ''Traité de botanique médicale phanérogamique'' (1883-1884). * *

References

Botanists with author abbreviations 19th-century French botanists 1827 births 1895 deaths Foreign members of the Royal Society Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala {{France-med-bio-stub