Paul Henri Lecomte
Paul Henri Lecomte.
Paul Henri Lecomte (8 January 1856, in Saint-Nabord,
botanist
.
In 1884, after attaining a number of degrees, Lecomte became a professor at
French Indo-China
.
In 1906, after having volunteered his time for some twenty years at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Lecomte was formally appointed to head the
Louis Édouard Bureau. In 1917, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He authored over 15 books including: Notions de botanique ("Botanical Ideas"),[1] Formation de la vanilline dans la vanille ("The Formation of Vanillin in Vanilla"),[2] Les bois d’Indochine ("The Trees of Indo-China")[3] and Madagascar: les bois de la forêt d'Analamazaotra ("Madagascar: The Trees and Flowers of Analamazaotra (Andasibe)").[4]
He retired in 1931.
Notes
- ^ Lecomte, Paul Henri (1904) Notions de botanique Masson et cie, Paris, OCLC 49440669
- ^ Lecomte, Henri (1914) Formation de la vanilline dans la vanille Augustin Challamel, Paris, OCLC 57658753
- ^ Lecomte, Henri (1925) Les bois d’Indochine Agence Économique de l’Inochine, Paris OCLC 9318081
- ^ Lecomte, Henri (1922) Madagascar: les bois de la forêt d'Analamazaotra A. Challamel, Paris, OCLC 6596211
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Lecomte.
References
- Jaussaud, Philippe and Brygoo, Édouard-Raoul (2004) Du Jardin au Muséum en 516 Biographies Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, ISBN 2-85653-565-8
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