Bernard de Jussieu
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Bernard de Jussieu (French pronunciation: [bɛʁnaʁ də ʒysjø]; 17 August 1699 – 6 November 1777) was a French naturalist, younger brother of Antoine de Jussieu.
Bernard de Jussieu was born in
Jardin des Plantes.[2] In 1725 he brought out a new edition of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort's Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs de Paris, 2 vols., which was afterwards translated into English by John Martyn, the original work being incomplete. In the same year he was admitted into the French Academy of Sciences, and communicated several papers to that body.[3]
Long before
L. G. Lemonnier to assume the higher position.[3]
He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1749.
The standard
plants
described by de Jussieu.
References
- ISBN 978-1616400729. Retrieved 2019-08-30.
- ISBN 978-1329874008. Retrieved 2019-08-30.
- ^ a b public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Jussieu, De, s.v. Bernard de Jussieu". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 593–594. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the