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Baillon (disambiguation)

Baillon is a surname of French origin, and may refer to:*Henri Ernest Baillon , French physician and botanist*Louis Antoine François Baillon , French naturalist and collector...

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Henri Ernest Baillon was a French

France

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 botanist and physician

Physician

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. He was born in Calais

Calais

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 on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris

Paris

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 on July 19, 1895.

Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany. He was appointed to the Légion d'honneur

Légion d'honneur

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 in 1867 and joined the Royal Society

Royal Society

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 in 1894.

Baillon put together the "Dictionnaire de botanique", for which Auguste Faguet

Auguste Faguet

Auguste Faguet was a noted 19th century French botanical illustrator, well-known for his contributions to major botanical works.Auguste Faguet produced fine botanical wood engravings to illustrate the works of Henri Ernest Baillon...

 produced the wood engraving

Wood engraving

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s. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Baill. when citing

Author citation (botany)

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 a botanical name

Botanical name

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Publications

• Étude générale du groupe des Euphorbiacées (1858)
• Monographie des Buxacées et des Stylocérée (1859)
• Recherches organogéniques sur la fleur femelle des Conifères (1860)
• Recherches sur l’organisation, le développement et l’anatomie des Caprifoliacées (1864)
• Adansonia, recueil périodique d’observations botaniques (ten volumes, 1866-1870)
• Histoire des plantes (thirty volumes, 1867-1895)
• Dictionnaire de botanique (four volumes, 1876-1892)
• Histoire naturelle des plantes de Madagascar (three volumes)
• Traité de botanique médicale phanérogamique (1883-1884).