Biography:Henri Lucien Jumelle
Henri Lucien Jumelle (25 November 1866 in Dreux, Eure-et-Loir Department, France – 6 December 1935 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône Department, France) was a French botanist.[1]
From 1887 to 1894, he worked as a plant physiologist at the Faculté des Sciences in Paris. Afterwards, he was a professor of botany at the Faculté des Sciences in Marseille (1894-1935).[2] From 1898 to 1916, he was assistant director, then director of the Musée colonial et du Jardin botanique in Marseille.[3]
He held a deep interest in applied botany, publishing numerous treatises on the agricultural aspects of various plants.[4] During his career, he worked closely with botanist Joseph Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie, who sent him botanical material from Madagascar . As a taxonomist, he circumscribed many new species native to Madagascar.[2]
From 1922 to 1935, he was a correspondent-member of the Académie des Sciences (botanical section).[3]
Botanical eponymy
- Jumellea (family Orchidaceae), named by Rudolf Schlechter, 1914.[5]
- Jumelleanthus (family Malvaceae), named by Bénédict Pierre Georges Hochreutiner, 1924.[6][7]
Selected works
- Recherches physiologiques sur le développement des plantes annuelles, 1889.
- Le laboratoire de biologie végétale de Fontainebleau dirigé par Gaston Bonnier, 1890.
- Les cultures coloniales (8 volumes), 1901–1927.
- Les ressources agricoles et forestières des colonies françaises, 1907.
- Les plantes à tubercules alimentaires des climats tempérés et des pays chauds, 1910.
- Catalogue descriptif des collections botaniques du Musée colonial de Marseille : Madagascar et la Réunion, 1916.[4]
References
- ↑ "Index of Botanists - Jumelle, Henri Lucien". Harvard University Herbaria. Harvard University. 21 May 2009. http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?id=2623. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 JSTOR Global Plants Jumelle, Henri Lucien (1866-1935)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 WorldCat Search published works
- ↑ "Jumellea Schltr. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:29766-1.
- ↑ BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- ↑ "Jumelleanthus perrieri Hochr. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:561037-1.
- ↑ IPNI, Jum., http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=Jum.
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