Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse explained

Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse or La Peirouse, Baron de Lapeyrouse (20 October 1744 in Toulouse – 18 October 1818 in château de Lapeyrouse, Haute-Garonne) was a French naturalist.

He was particularly interested in the flora and fauna of the Pyrenees.[1] After the revolution, he became the first professor of natural history in Toulouse and his collections, from 1796, were housed in the former Carmelite Monastery of Toulouse which went on to become the Muséum de l'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse.[2]

In 1782 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1800 he was mayor of Toulouse.

The genus Lapeirousia in the family Iridaceae was named after him by his friend Pierre André Pourret, and not, as is sometimes erroneously stated, after the French mariner, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse.[3] [4]

Works

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Muséum de Toulouse blog: Philippe Picot de Lapeyrouse. March 2016. French. 30 May 2018.
  2. Web site: Quelques dates de l'histoire du Muséum.... French. Muséum de Toulouse. 30 May 2018. 8 March 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230308112648/https://www.museum.toulouse.fr/histoire-du-museum. dead.
  3. Chittenden, Fred J. Ed., Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening, Oxford 1951
  4. Clos, M. D. Pourret et son Histoire des Cistes. Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences inscriptions et belles-lettres de Toulouse. 1858. pp. 244-265 (p. 248). https://books.google.com/books?id=ufMrAAAAYAAJ&q=Lapeyrouse+Lapeirousia