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RENE LOUICHE See also:DESFONTAINES (1750-1833)
, See also:French botanist, was See also:born at Tremblay (Ile-et-Vilaine) on the 14th of See also:February 1750
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After graduating in See also:medicine at See also:Paris, he was elected a member of the See also:Academy of Sciences in 1783
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In the same See also:year he set out for See also:North See also:Africa, on a scientific exploring expedition, and on his return two years afterwards brought with him a large collection of See also:plants, animals, &c., comprising, it is said, 1600 See also:species of plants, of which about 300 were described for the first See also:time
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In 1786 he was nominated to the See also:post of See also:professor at the Jardin See also:des Plantes, vacated in his favour by his friend, L
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G
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See also:Lemonnier
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His See also:great See also:work, See also:Flora Atlantica sine historia plantarum quae in Atlante, agro Tunetano et Algeriensi crescunt, was published in 2 vols
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4to in 1798, and he produced in 1804 a Tableau de l'ecole botanique du museum d'histoire naturelle de Paris, of which a third edition appeared in 1831, under the new See also:title Catalogus plantarum horti regii Parisiensis
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He was also the author of many See also:memoirs on See also:vegetable See also:anatomy and See also:physiology, descriptions of new genera and species, &c., one of the most important being a " Memoir on the Organization of the Monocotyledons." He died at Paris on the 16th of See also:November 1833
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His See also:Barbary collection was bequeathed to the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, and his See also:general collection passed into the hands of the See also:English botanist, See also: |
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