Henri_Ernest_Baillon

Henri Ernest Baillon

Henri Ernest Baillon

French botanist and physician

Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on 30 November 1827 and died in Paris on 19 July 1895.

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Diploglottis cunninghamii, Baillon's Dictionnaire de botanique

Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany. He was appointed to the Légion d'honneur in 1867 and joined the Royal Society in 1894.

Baillon put together the "Dictionnaire de botanique", for which Auguste Faguet produced the wood engravings. The plant genus Baillonia (family Verbenaceae) was named in his honor by Henri Théophile Bocquillon.[1]

The standard author abbreviation Baill. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

Selected publications

  • Étude générale du groupe des Euphorbiacées (1858)
  • Monographie des Buxacées et des Stylocérée (1859)
  • Recherches organogéniques sur la fleur femelle des Conifères (1860)
  • Recherches sur l’organisation, le développement et l’anatomie des Caprifoliacées (1864)
  • Adansonia, recueil périodique d’observations botaniques (12 volumes, 1866–1879)
  • Histoire des plantes (thirteen volumes, 1867-1895)
  • Dictionnaire de botanique (four volumes, 1876–1892)
  • Histoire naturelle des plantes de Madagascar (three volumes)
  • Traité de botanique médicale phanérogamique (1883-1884).
  • Baillon, M. H. (1 November 1893). "L'organisation et les affinités des Campynémées". Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Paris (in French). 2 (140): 1105–1109.

References

  1. [1]
    Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms ... by Umberto Quattrocchi
  2. [2]
    International Plant Names Index.  Baill.


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