Biography:Henri Lucien Jumelle

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Short description: French botanist

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

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]

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