Dominique Villars
Dominique Villars | |
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 Dominique Villars | |
| Born | 14 November 1745 Le Villard,Le Noyer, Hautes-Alpes |
| Died | 26 June 1814(aged 68) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | botanist |
Dominique VillarsorVillar(born 14 November 1745 in Le Villard, part of the commune ofLe Noyer, Hautes-Alpes,and died on 26 June 1814 inStrasbourg) was an 18th-centuryFrenchbotanist.
His main work isHistoire des plantes du Dauphinépublished between 1786 and 1789, in which about 2,700 species (particularly alpine plants) are described, after over twenty years of observation in theDauphinéregion of southeastern France. His herbarium and botanical manuscripts are preserved at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle deGrenoble.
References
[edit]- Benoît Dayrat (2003).Les Botanistes et la Flore de France. Trois siècles de découvertes,scientific magazine of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle: 690 p.
