Auguste Chevalier
Auguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier (June 1873, Domfront – June 1956, Paris) was a French botanist, taxonomist, and explorer of tropical Africa, especially of French colonial empire Africa and Côte d'Ivoire. He also explored and collected plants in South America and tropical Asia. Chevalier was a prolific contributor to the knowledge of African plants, studying forest trees and their woods, grasses, and agricultural plants of Africa. Unlike other botanists who studied the plants of tropical Africa, Chevalier also ranged to the floral regions of the Sahara.
In 1896 he obtained his degree in natural sciences and in 1901 his phD from the University of Lille.[1][2] At Lille he worked as an assistant to botanist Charles Eugene Bertrand (1851-1917).[1] In 1899-1900, he took part in a scientific mission in French Sudan, and in 1905 established a botanical garden in Dalaba, French Guinea.[2] From 1913 to 1919, he collected plants throughout Indochina.[3] Later, he attained a professorship in Paris (1929).[4]
In 1937 he was elected as a member of the Académie des sciences, serving as its president in 1953. He was a also member of the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer (from 1922), president of the Société botanique de France (1929), vice-president of the Comité national de géographie (1935-1952) and a member of the Académie d'agriculture de France (from 1937).[1][4]
In 1921 he founded the journal, Revue de Botanique appliquée et d'Agriculture coloniale.[4][1] The botanical genera Chevalierella, Chevalierodendron, Neochevaliera and Neochevalierodendron are named in his honor.[2]
Selected writings
- Sur l'existence probable d'une mer récente dans la région de Tombouctou, 1901.
- Rapport sur une mission scientifique et économique au Chari-lac-Tchad, 1905.
- La forêt vierge de la Côte d'Ivoire, 1908.
- Mission Chari-Lac Tchad, 1902-1904: L'Afrique Centrale Française, 1908.
- Le Pays des Hollis et les régions voisines: Mission scientifique de l'Afrique occidentale française, 1910.
- La Forét et les Bois du Gabon, 1917.
- La Forêt du Brésil, 1929.[5][6]
- Les iles du Cap Vert : flore de l'Archipel, 1935.
- L'agriculture coloniale : origines et évolutions, 1949.[7]
References
- ^ a b c d http://cths.fr/an/prosopo.php?id=102836 Prosopo] Sociétés savantes
- ^ a b c JSTOR Global Plants (biography)
- ^ HUH Index of Botanists
- ^ a b c BNF.fr Auguste Chevalier (1873-1956)
- ^ Google Search (list of publications)
- ^ Google Search (more publications)
- ^ WorldCat Search (publications)
- ^ International Plant Names Index. A.Chev.
External Links
- IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Chevalier.
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