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2 unusual facts about Augustin Pyramus de Candolle


Augustin Pyramus de Candolle

In 1796, Candolle moved to Paris after receiving an invitation from French geologist Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu.

General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the botany of Terra Australis

It then provides a systematic arrangement of the Australian plants, broadly following the system presented by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in his 1813 Théorie élémentaire de la botanique.


Esprit Requien

The genera Requienella (author Jean-Henri Fabre) and Requeinia (author Augustin Pyramus de Candolle) are named after him, as are plants with the specific and subspecific epithets of requienii.

Heinrich Zollinger

From 1837-1838 he studied botany at the University of Geneva under Augustin and Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, but had to interrupt his studies due to financial problems.

Jacques Clarion

In 1812, the botanical genus Clarionea (Lagasca ex A. P. de Candolle, 1812) was named in his honor.

Musée et jardins botaniques cantonaux

The library conserves a collection of 3375 ancient books, floras and other works dating from 1531 to 1901, including works by Linné, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Albrecht von Haller, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Dominique Villars, Lamarck, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, and others.


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