Édouard Bureau

Louis Édouard Bureau (born May 25, 1830 in Nantes , † December 14, 1918 in Paris ) was a French medic and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Bureau ".

Live and act

From 1875 he was director of the herbarium at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle . From 1874 to 1905 he was a professor there . In 1875 he was chairman of the Société botanique de France . He was a member of the Académie nationale de médecine and from 1895 to 1917 a member of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques . He was followed in 1906 by the French botanist Henri Lecomte (1856–1934).

Bureau worked on the Dictionnaire de botanique by Henri Ernest Baillon . For Volume XVII (1873) of the work Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis by Augustin-Pyrame de Candolle , he wrote the contribution " Moraceae, Artocarpeae ". To the Flora brasiliensis of Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius he contributed together with Karl Moritz Schumann the part " Bignoniaceae " for volume VIII.

Honors

Because of its collections in China , the plant species is Rhododendron bureavii Franch. named after him. The genus Bureava Baill was named in his honor . named from the winged family (Combretaceae).

Works

Monograph des Bignoniacées,… , 1864
Plantes nouvelles du Thibet et de la Chine occidentale, recueillies pendant le voyage de M. Bonvalot et du prince Henri d'Orléans en 1890 , Paris, 1891 (together with Adrien Franchet ).
De la famille des Loganiacées et des plantes qu'elle fournít a la médecine. 1856.
Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de M. É. Bureau. 1901, 1864.
Review of the genre Catalpa . 1894.
Bassin houiller de la basse Loire. 1910–1914, Etudes des gîtes minéraux de la France
Notice on the geologie de la Loire-Inférieure … avec listes des végétaux fossiles 1900

Individual evidence

↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

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personal data
SURNAME	Bureau, Édouard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bureau, Louis Édouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French medic and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nantes
DATE OF DEATH	December 14, 1918
Place of death	Paris

[Burkhardt2018-1] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]