Albert Callay Explained

Birth Date:21 February 1822
Birth Place:Montcornet, Aisne
Death Place:Le Chesne, Ardennes
Nationality:French
Field:Naturalist
Author Abbrev Bot:Callay

Eugène Albert Athanase Callay (born February 21, 1822, in Montcornet, Aisne and died in LeChesne, Ardennes March 24, 1896) was a French pharmacist and amateur botanist who worked on classifying the flora of the department of the Ardennes.[1] [2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Callay . Albert . Bestel . F . 1900 . Catalogue raisonné & descriptif des plantes vasculaires du département des Ardennes . Charleville . E. Jolly . (published posthumously)
  2. L'herbier d'Athanase Callay : un patrimoine historique et scientifique ignoré, dans le Bulletin de la Société d'histoire naturelle des Ardennes, 2009, t.99, 29-50