Paul Constant Billot
Paul Constant Billot (12 March 1796 – 19 April 1863) was a French botanist born in Rambervillers.
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He studied at the University of Strasbourg, subsequently leaving school due to illness. From 1830 he worked as a civil servant (conductor of ponts et chaussées), earning his bachelor's degree a few years later. From 1834 to 1861 he taught classes in physics and natural history in Haguenau.[1]
With botanist Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz (1804–1876), he was co-author of Archives de la flore de France et d'Allemagne.[2] Billot's Annotations a la flore de France et d'allemagne (1855) was issued with Flora galliae et germaniae exsiccata, a series which after his death in 1863 was continued by other scientists under the title of "Billotia".[3][4]
Today his herbarium is kept at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle in Nantes.[5][6]
References[]
- ^ Billot - Jardin Botanique Archived 2007-10-27 at the Wayback Machine (biographical information)
- ^ WorldCat Titles (publications)
- ^ Open Library Annotations a la flore de France et d'allemagne
- ^ Google Books (publications)
- ^ Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nantes Herbarium Billot
- ^ GBIF France Archived 2013-02-13 at archive.today Consultation de la collection: herbier Billot, collection Dufour E.
- ^ IPNI. Billot.
- 1796 births
- 1863 deaths
- People from Vosges (department)
- 19th-century French botanists