Joseph Duval-Jouve was a French botanist born in Boissy-Lamberville

Boissy-Lamberville

Boissy-Lamberville is a commune in the Eure department in Haute-Normandie in northern France.-Population:-References:*...

. He was the father of histologist Mathias-Marie Duval

Mathias-Marie Duval

Mathias-Marie Duval was a French professor of anatomy and histology born in Grasse. He was the son of botanist Joseph Duval-Jouve .He studied medicine in Paris, and later served as prosector in Strassburg...

 (1844-1907).

During his career he served as an academic inspector in Algiers

Algiers

' is the capital and largest city of Algeria. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. In 2009, the population was about 3,500,000...

, Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...

 and Montpellier

Montpellier

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. A portion of his herbarium

Herbarium

In botany, a herbarium – sometimes known by the Anglicized term herbar – is a collection of preserved plant specimens. These specimens may be whole plants or plant parts: these will usually be in a dried form, mounted on a sheet, but depending upon the material may also be kept in...

 was donated to the Faculté de Sciences at Montpelier

Montpellier

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.

He specialized in research of the family Poaceae

Poaceae

The Poaceae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called grasses, although the term "grass" is also applied to plants that are not in the Poaceae lineage, including the rushes and sedges...

 and the genus Equisetum. The plant genus Jouvea is named in his honor.

Written works

• Histoire naturelle des Equisetum de France (1864)
• Étude anatomique de l'arète des graminées (1870)