George Samuel Perrottet

George Samuel Perrottet (* 1793 in Nant, now the town of Bas- Vully, Canton of Fribourg, † January 3, 1870 in Pondicherry in India) was a French botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Perr. ".

He worked as a gardener in the botanical garden in Paris and took from 1819 to 1821 as a naturalist on an expedition led by Pierre Henri Philibert part. On this trip he collected plants in Réunion, Java and the Philippines, to cultivate this in French Guiana later.

From 1824 to 1829 he undertook expeditions to West Africa in the area of ​​today's Gambia and Senegal including the island of Gorée and the Cape Verde Islands.

Together with Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemin (1796-1842), and Achille Richard (1794-1852), he published a work on the flora Senegambias Florae Senegambiae Tentamen (1830-1833), which was illustrated by Joseph Decaisne ( 1807-1882 ).

In 1832 Perrottet worked again in Paris, at the Muséum national d' histoire naturelle, 1834-1839 then at the Botanical Garden of Pondicherry. In 1839 he returned to France, where he worked in sericulture. Early as 1843, he went to Pondicherry but again, where he worked as a botanist until his death in 1870.