Édouard Bureau

Louis Édouard Bureau ( born May 25, 1830 in Nantes, † December 14, 1918 in Paris) was a French physician and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Bureau ".

Life and work

From 1875 he was director of the Herbarium at the Muséum national d' histoire naturelle. From 1874 to 1905 he was a professor there. In 1875 he was chairman of the Société botanique de France. He was a member of the Académie nationale de médecine and 1895-1917 Member of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. He was succeeded in 1906 by the French botanist Paul Henri Lecomte ( 1856-1934 ).

Bureau worked at the factory Dictionnaire de botanique by Henri Ernest Baillon with. For volume XVII (1873 ) of the work Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis by Augustin - de Candolle Pyrame he wrote the article " Moraceae, Artocarpeae ". To Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius he wore along with Karl Moritz Schumann at the part " Bignoniaceae " for Volume VIII.

Due to its collections in China, the plant species Rhododendron is named after him bureavii.

Works

• Monograph of Bignoniacées, ..., 1864
• Plantes nouvelles du Thibet et de la Chine occidentale, recueillies pendant le voyage de M. Bonvalot et du prince Henri d' Orléans en 1890, Paris, 1891 (along with Adrien Franchet ).
• De la famille et des plantes of Loganiacées FOURNIT qu'elle a la médecine. In 1856.
• Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de M. É. Bureau. 1901, 1864.
• Révision du genre Catalpa. In 1894.
• Bassin de la basse Houiller Loire. 1910-1914, the gîtes minéraux Etudes de la France
• Notice sur la géologie de la Loire Inférieure ... avec listes of fossil végétaux 1900