Vesco, Jean Nicolas Eugene (1816-c.1880)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Jean Nicolas Eugene
Last name
Vesco
Initials
J.
Life Dates
1847 - 1854
Collecting Dates
1847 - 1854
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Bryophytes
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
P (main), PC (main), B, BM, G, KIEL, L, MO, TAN
Countries
Pacific region: French PolynesiaMadagascan region: MadagascarMascarenes: Mauritius
Associate(s)
Lépine, Jules (1817-1884) (co-collector)
Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (1820-1895)
Biography
Eugene Vesco was French naval surgeon aboard the Uranie who collected plants in the Marquesas, Tahiti, Madagascar and Mauritius. The Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, received 1,520 plants from the Marquesas and Tahiti in 1848 and 434 plants from Madagascar and Mauritius in 1850. Vesco also made zoological collections.

Sources:
E. Bescherelle, 1898, Journal de Botanique, 12: 136-150
W.B.D. Mantell, 1873, "On the Botany of Tahiti", Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 6: lxx
G. Sayre, 1975, "Cryptogamae Exsiccatae: an annotated bibliography of exsiccatae of algae, lichens, hepaticae, and musci. V. Unpublished Exsiccatae: I. Collectors", Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 19(3): 408
Société d'Histoire Naturelle de la Moselle:
http://shnm.free.fr/collectionsH.N.METZ.html, accessed 27 July 2012.
References
Dorr, L.J. Pl. Collectors Madagasc. Comoro Is. (1997): 487; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. T-Z (1988): 1082;
Vesco, Jean Nicolas Eugene (1816-c.1880)
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