Émile Deplanche

Émile François Deplanche (born June 22, 1824 in Argentan , Département Orne ; † March 31, 1875 ibid) was a French marine doctor , entomologist and botanist . His research focus was the flora of New Caledonia . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Deplanche ".

Life

Deplanche was the son of François Deplanche and Delphine Françoise Leblanc. He studied medicine and zoology at the University of Caen . In 1854 he served as a military surgeon during the Crimean War before traveling to Cayenne as a doctor on board the Rapide in August of the same year . He researched French Guiana and gathered a lot of botanical material in this region. In 1855 a yellow fever epidemic broke out in the colony, which also affected the Rapide crew . However, Deplanche was spared the disease and returned to France. He settled in Cherbourg and brought a large collection of birds from Cayenne. However, his plant collection was damaged during the crossing.

After a break of several months, Deplanche sailed to Tahiti , where he collected birds and mussels and accompanied research members of the Austrian frigate Novara . In recognition of his support, he was appointed a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

In 1858 Deplanche went to New Caledonia, where he amassed many natural history collections while accompanying the governor to the capital Nouméa . On board the Hydrographe , he traveled to the hardly explored region of the Baie Saint Vincent and to Mont Dore . Together with the botanist Eugène Vieillard , he collected plants, birds, insects, mollusks, crustaceans, fish, minerals and human skulls.

In October 1859 Deplanche left New Caledonia with his collections. Bird hides from this collection were later studied in France by Jules Verreaux and Marc Athanase Parfait Œillet Des Murs . In 1861 Deplanche and Vieillard sailed aboard the Isis via the Cape of Good Hope , Réunion and Sydney to New Caledonia again. In Nouméa they parted ways. Vieillard traveled to Wagap in New Caledonia, Deplanche to Lifou in the Loyalty Islands , where he stayed for over a year to study the natural history of the island. He then went on a hydrographic mission to the Pacific on board the Fine . In 1863 he published the work Essai sur la Nouvelle-Caledonie on New Caledonia together with his friend Eugène Vieillard .

After surviving an attack by locals on the garrison of the Île de Gatope off the coast of New Caledonia, Deplanche was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, the Legion of Honor's Order of Merit, in August 1865 . Due to illness, Deplanche returned to France in March 1867. In the last years of his life he lived in his hometown Argentan, where in 1870 he published an article entitled Ethnologie Calédonienne about the people of Caledonia. After his death, his library, manuscripts and medals were bequeathed to the city of Argentan.

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  Entry of the birth of Émile François Deplanche in Argentan

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  Entry of the death of Émile François Deplanche in Argentan

Dedication names

1860 named Verraux and Des Murs , the New Caledonian subspecies Trichoglossus haematodus deplanchii of Allfarbloris honor of Deplanche. In 1869 Arthur René Jean Baptiste Bavay described the Skinkart Sigaloseps deplanchei of New Caledonia. Eugène Vieillard dedicated the plant genus Deplanchea to Deplanche . Several plant species with the epithet deplanchei , including Drypetes deplanchei from New Caledonia and Australia, also have Deplanches names.

Web links

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Émile Deplanche at the IPNI
• JSTOR Global Plants Émile Deplanche (biography)

literature

• Marc Athanase Parfait Œillet Des Murs, Jules Verreaux: Description d'Oiseaux nouveaux de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et indication des espèce déja connus de ce pays . In: Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée (=  2 ). tape 12 , 1860, p. 383-396 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} JSTOR Global Plants: Émile Deplanche
2. ↑ Marc Athanase Parfait Œillet Des Murs u. a., p. 388.