Nestor Léon Marchand (15 April 1833 – 16 April 1911) was a

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, and

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. He is known for his studies of the

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family

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. He studied in

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and

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, subsequently earning a bachelor of science degree (1860), a doctorate in medicine (1861), a first-class license in pharmacy (1864) and a doctorate in

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(1867).Société d'Histoire de la Pharmacie
G. Dillemann. Historique des Facultés de pharmacie. Produits et problèmes pharmaceutiques, années 1970 He later became a professor of botanical

cryptogam A cryptogam (scientific name ''Cryptogamae'') is a plant, in the broad sense of the word, or a plant-like organism that share similar characteristics, such as being multicellular, photosynthetic, and primarily immobile, that reproduces via sp ...

y at the ''École supérieure de pharmacie'' in Paris. He was

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Thiais Thiais () is a Communes of France, commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, center of Paris. The name Thiais comes from Medieval Latin ''Theodasium'' or ''Theodaxium'', meaning "estate of Theodasiu ...

, France from 1881 to 1887.

Selected publications

* ''Du Croton tiglium : recherches botaniques et thérapeutiques'', 1861 -

Croton tiglium ''Croton tiglium'', known as purging croton, is a plant species in the family Euphorbiaceae. Etymology The species, specific name ''tiglium'' is of obscure origin. It may come from the traditional name given by pharmacists to the seeds of the c ...

: botanical and therapeutic research. * ''Recherches organographiques et organogéniques sur le Coffea arabica L.'', 1864 - Organographic and organogenic research of

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. * ''Recherches sur l'organisation des burséracées'', 1868 - Research on the organization of

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* ''Histoire de l'ancien groupe des térébin-thacées'', 1869 - History of the former group Terebinthaceae
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* ''Enumération des Substances fournies a la Médecine et a la Pharmacie par l'ancien Groupe des Térébinthacées'' . LaHure, Paris 186
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* ''Botanique cryptogamique pharmaco-médicale: Programme raisonné d'un cours professé à l'Ecole supérieure de pharmacie de Paris'', 1880. * ''Révision du groupe des Anacardiacées'' - Revision involving the group

. * ''Synopsis et tableau synoptique des familles qui composent la classe des mycophytes (Champignons et Lichens)'', 1894 - Synopsis with a synoptic table of families that make up the class of mycophytes (

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and

lichens A lichen ( , ) is a hybrid colony (biology), colony of algae or cyanobacteria living symbiotically among hypha, filaments of multiple fungus species, along with yeasts and bacteria embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualism (biology), m ...

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(publications)

References

1833 births 1911 deaths Botanists active in Europe 19th-century French botanists French mycologists French naturalists {{france-botanist-stub