Alfred Huet du Pavillon explained

Alfred Huet du Pavillon (January 1829, in Blain, Loire-Atlantique – 1907, in Frohsdorf) was a French botanist. His brother, Édouard Huet du Pavillon (1819-1908), with whom he often collaborated, was also a botanist.

He spent his childhood in Switzerland, later studying under botanist Alphonse de Candolle. From 1852 to 1856 he was curator of de Candolle's herbarium.^[1] In the 1850s he took a series of botanical expeditions to the Pyrénées, Armenia, Italy (including Sicily) and Sardinia. In Italy and Sicily, he was accompanied by Édouard Huet du Pavillon.^[2]

With his brother, he amassed an impressive herbarium, and issued numerous series of exsiccatae.^[3] In 1856 Pierre Edmond Boissier introduced the genus name Huetia in honor of the Huet brothers.^{[4] [5]}

Associated writings

• Description de quelques plantes nouvelles des Pyrénées, 1853 - Description of some new plants of the Pyrénées.
• Notice biographique sur les botanistes Edouard et Alfred Huet du Pavillon, 1914, Edouard Huet du Pavillon, Alfred Huet du Pavillon, John Briquet.^[6]

Notes and References

1. http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/187059.html Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - H
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=_7sXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA181 Bulletin de l'Académie internationale de géographie botanique, Volume 18
3. Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
4. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068601#page/385/mode/1up BHL
5. http://tropicos.org/Name/40028133?langid=12 Tropicos
6. https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Alfred+Huet+du+Pavillon%22 Google Books