Jean Nadeaud (1834 – 20 November 1898) was a French

naval surgeon A naval surgeon, or less commonly ship's doctor, is the person responsible for the health of the ship's company aboard a warship. The term appears often in reference to Royal Navy's medical personnel during the Age of Sail. Ancient uses Specialis ...

, physician and

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

. From February 1856 to August 1859, he lived in

Tahiti Tahiti (; Tahitian language, Tahitian , ; ) is the largest island of the Windward Islands (Society Islands), Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France. It is located in the central part of t ...

, where he studied and collected plants native to the island. In 1864, he received his doctorate from the faculty of medicine at

Montpellier Montpellier (; ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of France, department of ...

with a thesis on

medicinal plants Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times. Plants synthesize hundreds of chemical compounds for various functions, including Plant defense against h ...

used in Tahiti, "''Plantes usuelles des tahitiens''".Nadeaud, Jean (1834-1898)
JSTOR Global Plants In 1873, he published an enumeration of the plants of Tahiti that included dozens of taxa new to science
"''Enumération des plantes indigènes de l'île de Tahiti recueillies et classées''"
His

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was acquired by

Emmanuel Drake del Castillo Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (28 December 1855 – 14 May 1904) was a French botanist. He was born at Paris and studied with Louis Édouard Bureau (1830–1918) at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (National Museum of Natural History). ...

, who sent some of its moss specimens to bryologist

Émile Bescherelle Émile Bescherelle (3 January 1828, Paris – 26 February 1903) was a French botanist and bryologist. Bescherelle is known for his analysis of bryological species from diverse locations that included the French West Indies, the Mascarene Islands ...

. He spent the last two years of his life in Tahiti as a physician and plant collector. The moss genus ''Nadeaudia'' (family

Calomniaceae ''Calomnion'' is a genus of mosses in the family Rhizogoniaceae. They have been reported from Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, Melanesia, New Guinea, and eastern Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in ...

) was named in his honor by Émile Bescherelle.BHL
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nadeaud, Jean 1834 births 1898 deaths University of Montpellier alumni 19th-century French botanists Botanists active in the Pacific Naval surgeons