Auguste Chevalier
Auguste Chevalier | |
|---|---|
 Auguste Chevalier in 1900 | |
| Born | June 23, 1873 |
| Died | June 4, 1956(aged 82) |
| Citizenship | French |
| Occupation | Botanist |
| Scientific career | |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | A.Chev. |
Auguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier(June 1873, inDomfront– June 1956, in Paris) was a Frenchbotanist,taxonomist,and explorer of tropicalAfrica,especially ofFrench colonial empirein Africa that includedCôte d'Ivoire.He also explored and collected plants inSouth Americaandtropical Asia.Chevalier was a prolific contributor to the knowledge of African plants, studying forest trees and their woods,grasses,and agricultural plants of the continent. Unlike other botanists who studied the plants of tropical Africa, Chevalier also ranged to the floral regions of theSahara.
In 1896, he obtained his degree innatural sciencesand in 1901 his phD from theUniversity of Lille.[1][2]AtLillehe worked as an assistant to botanistCharles Eugene Bertrand(1851-1917).[1]In 1899–1900, he took part in a scientific mission inFrench Sudan,and in 1905 established abotanical gardeninDalaba,French Guinea.[2]From 1913 to 1919, he collected plants throughoutIndochina.[3]Later, he attained a professorship in Paris (1929).[4]
In 1937, he was elected as a member of theAcadémie des sciences,serving as its president in 1953. He was also a member of theAcadémie des sciences d'outre-mer(from 1922), president of theSociété botanique de France(1929), vice-president of theComité national de géographie(1935-1952) and a member of theAcadémie d'agriculture de France(from 1937).[1][4]He was elected a Foreign Member of theLinnean Society of London.[5]
In 1921, he founded the journal,Revue de Botanique appliquée et d'Agriculture coloniale.[1][4]The botanical generaChevalierella,Chevalierodendron,NeochevalieraandNeochevalierodendronare named in his honor.[2]
Selected writings
[edit]- Sur l'existence probable d'une mer récente dans la région de Tombouctou,1901 - On the probable existence of a recent sea in the region ofTimbuktu.
- Rapport sur une mission scientifique et économique au Chari-lac-Tchad,1905 - Report on a scientific and economic mission involving theChari-Lake Chad.
- La forêt vierge de la Côte d'Ivoire,1908 - The virgin forest of theIvory Coast.
- Mission Chari-Lac Tchad, 1902-1904: L'Afrique Centrale Française,1908 - Chari-Lake Chad mission (1902–04); French central Africa.
- Le Pays des Hollis et les régions voisines: Mission scientifique de l'Afrique occidentale française,1910 - The country of Hollis and neighboring regions; scientific mission toFrench West Africa.
- La forét et les bois du Gabon,1917 - The forest and wood ofGabon.
- La forêt du Brésil,1929 - The forest ofBrazil.[6][7]
- Les iles du Cap Vert: flore de l'Archipel,1935 - The islands ofCape Verde;flora of the archipelago.
- L'agriculture coloniale: origines et évolutions,1949 - Colonial agriculture, origins and evolutions.[8]
- Octave Lignier, professeur de botanique à la Faculté des sciences de l'Université de Caen... (1855-1916). Notice biographique– Biography ofOctave Lignier.[9]
References
[edit]- ^abcdProsopoSociétés savantes
- ^abcJSTOR Global Plants(biography)
- ^HUHIndex of Botanists
- ^abcBNF.frAuguste Chevalier (1873-1956)
- ^"deaths reported".Proceedings of the Linnean Society London.24 May 1957.doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1958.tb00806.x;H. Hamshaw Thomas,M.B.E., F.R.S., President in the Chair
{{cite journal}}:CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^Google Search(list of publications)
- ^Google Search(more publications)
- ^WorldCat Search(publications)
- ^Octave Lignier, professeur de botanique à la Faculté des sciences de l'Université de CaenGoogle Books
- ^International Plant Names Index.A.Chev.
External links
[edit]- IPNIList of plants described and co-described by Chevalier.
