Nicaise Auguste Desvaux Explained

Nicaise Auguste Desvaux (28 August 1784 – 12 July 1856) was a French botanist.^[1]

From 1816 he taught classes in Angers, where from 1817 to 1838 he served as director of its botanical garden.^{[2] [3]} He described the botanical genera Neslia, Mycenastrum, Rostkovia and Didymoglossum. The genus Desvauxia is named in his honor.^[4]

Works

• Journal de Botanique, appliquée à l'Agriculture, à la Pharmacie, à la Médecine et aux Arts (1813-1815, 4 volumes).
• Observations sur les plantes des environs d'Angers (1818).
• Flore de l'Anjou ou exposition méthodique des plantes du département de Maine et Loire et de l’ancien Anjou (1827).
• Prodrome de la famille des fougères (1827).
• Sur le genre Mycenastrum, In: Annales des Sciences Naturelles Botanique, Série 2 17: 143-[147] (1842).^[5]

Note: He is not to be confused with French botanist Étienne-Émile Desvaux (1830-1854, botanical abbrev. É.Desv.).

Notes and References

1. Web site: - The Mineralogical Record - Library. 3 October 2019.
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=8ieqQs7hIREC&pg=PA611 Google Books
3. http://data.bnf.fr/13474870/auguste-nicaise_desvaux/ Auguste-Nicaise Desvaux (1784-1856)
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=FQRHAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA90 Google Books
5. http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cgi-bin/bibquery.pl?author=desvaux, Publications by Desvaux