Huet du Pavillon, Édouard (1819-1908)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Édouard
Last name
Huet du Pavillon
Initials
É.
Life Dates
1819 - 1908
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
G (main), BERN, BM, FI, GOET, K, L, MANCH, MPU, NEU, NMW, OXF, P, TO, W, WAG
Countries
Europe: France, Italy, Switzerland
Associate(s)
Huet du Pavillon, Alfred (1829-1907) (co-collector)
Jacquin, Nicolaus (Nicolaas) Joseph von (1727-1817) (co-collector)
Biography
French-born botanist and boarding school director in Geneva. Édouard Huet du Pavillon and his brother, Albert, carried out several years of extensive collecting in Europe. Born in Blain he studied in Fribourg from 1835 and began to collect plant specimens in the surrounding countryside. After moving to Geneva with his family in 1847 Édouard was accepted as a governor in Russia and resided for some time in Grodno and Lithuania. On his return to Geneva the two brothers were reunited and began their botanical activity together, journeying into the Alps and Valais and climbing Mont-Blanc in 1851. This same year Édouard returned to Lithuania without Albert and gathered some plant specimens here too.

Following a trip to the Pyrenees in 1852 the brothers decided to enrich their growing collection with examples from further afield and planned a trip to Persia and Armenia. After their arrival in Constantinople in 1853 they travelled east through Turkey but their journey was cut short by the Crimean War. Despite having to return home early they still managed to bring back some 100 new varieties for the flora of the Orient. In 1854 they visited Sardinia and the following year undertook an even more successful expedition to Sicily and Naples. From these travels they issued numerous series of exsiccatae, including Plantae siculae and Plantae neapolitanae. The Huet herbarium, rich in types particularly from the Italian expedition, is 14,000 strong and was donated to the herbarium in Geneva by Édouard's son in 1912. In 1857 both of the Huet du Pavillon brothers abandoned botany and collecting completely when they founded a boarding school in Geneva. At this time Édouard devoted himself full time to the direction of the school and remained in Geneva until his death. His brother moved to Lanzenkirchen and become secretary to the Count of Chambourd.

Sources:
J. Briquet, 1940, "Biographies des Botanistes a Genéve de 1500 a 1930", Bulletin de la Société Botanique Suisse, 50a: 277-281
F.A. Stafleu and R.S. Cowan, 1976-1998, Taxonomic Literature, 2nd edition (TL-2).
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 288; Harrison, S.G., Ind. Coll. Welsh Nat. Herb. (1985): 55; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): 290, 291; Murray, G.R.M., Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Dep. Brit. Mus. (1904): 156;
Huet du Pavillon, Édouard (1819-1908)
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