Henri Ernest Baillon
French botanist and physician
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Henri Ernest Baillon (30 November 1827 in Calais – 19 July 1895 in Paris) was French botanist and physician.
Baillon spent his academic life teaching natural history and publishing numerous works on botany. He was appointed to the Légion d'honneur in 1867, joined the Royal Society in 1894 and put together the Dictionnaire de botanique with Auguste Faguet's wood engravings.[1]
The standard author abbreviation Baill. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]
Select works
- Étude générale du groupe des Euphorbiacées (1858)
- Monographie des Buxacées et des Stylocérée (1859)
- Recherches organogéniques sur la fleur femelle des Conifères (1860)
- Recherches sur l’organisation, le développement et l’anatomie des Caprifoliacées (1864)
- Adansonia, recueil périodique d’observations botaniques (12 volumes, 1866–1879)
- Histoire des plantes (thirteen volumes, 1867-1895)
- Dictionnaire de botanique (four volumes, 1876–1892)
- Histoire naturelle des plantes de Madagascar (three volumes)
- Traité de botanique médicale phanérogamique (1883-1884).
- Baillon, M. H. (1 November 1893). "L'organisation et les affinités des Campynémées". Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Paris (in French). 2 (140): 1105–1109.
References
- ^ Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms ... by Umberto Quattrocchi
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Baill.
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