Louis Athanase Chaubard (18 March 1781 in

Agen Agen (, , ) is the prefecture of the Lot-et-Garonne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Southwestern France. It lies on the river Garonne, southeast of Bordeaux. In 2021, the commune had a population of 32,485. Geography The city of Agen l ...

– 1854) was a French

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and

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Contributions

With

Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent Jean-Baptiste Geneviève Marcellin Bory de Saint-Vincent was a French naturalist, officer and politician. He was born on 6 July 1778 in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne) and died on 22 December 1846 in Paris. Biologist and geographer, he was particularly int ...

(1778-1846), he was co-author of ''Nouvelle Flore du Péloponèse et des Cyclades'' (New flora of the Pelopennesus and the

Cyclades The CYCLADES computer network () was a French research network created in the early 1970s. It was one of the pioneering networks experimenting with the concept of packet switching and, unlike the ARPANET, was explicitly designed to facilitate i ...

). He also made contributions to Jean Florimond Boudon de Saint-Amans' ''Flore agenaise ou description méthodique des plantes observées dans le département de Lot-et-Garonne'', etc. Other noted works by Chaubard are: * ''Éléments de Géologie mis à la portée de tout le monde et offrant la concordance ds faits géologiques avec les faits historiques tels qu'ils se trouvent dans la Bible, les traditions égyptiennes et les fables de la Grèce'',

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, Risler, 1833, second edition 1838 - Elements of

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placed within the reach of everyone and in concordance with the geological and historical facts, as found in the

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, Egyptian traditions and fables of Greece. * ''Notice géologique sur les terrains du département de Lot-et-Garonne (Ancien Agenais)'', Paris, 1930. * ''L'Univers expliqué par la révélation, ou Essai de philosophie positive'', Paris, Debéourt, Baillière et l'Auteur, 1841 - The universe explained by revelation, or test positive philosophy.

Recognition

The plant genus '' Chaubardia'' (family

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) is named in his honor.Google Books
CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific ..., Volume 1 by Umberto Quattrocchi

References

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