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Thollon, François-Romain (1855-1896)
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
François-Romain
Last name
Thollon
Initials
F.-R.
Life Dates
1855 - 1896
Collecting Dates
1883 - 1895
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Fungi
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
P (main), PC (main), BM, BR, E, FH, G, K, MO
Countries
Tropical Africa: Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Nigeria
Associate(s)
Savorgnan de Brazza, Pierre Paul François Camille (1852-1905) (co-collector)
Biography
François-Romain Thollon was a Parisian botanist who left his role as assistant head of the School of Botany in the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, to work in Gabon and the Congo from 1882. He served as a member of the de Brazza mission and sent large consignments of plants to the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He also made zoological collections and a number of species are named in his honour. Thollon remained in Congo for the rest of his life.
Sources:
1897, Bulletin de la Muséum d'Histoire Naturelles de Paris, 3: 73, 115-116
F.N. Hepper and F. Neate, 1971, Plant Collectors in West Africa: 79
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 V. Unpublished Exsiccatae: I. Collectors", Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 19(3): 404.
Sources:
1897, Bulletin de la Muséum d'Histoire Naturelles de Paris, 3: 73, 115-116
F.N. Hepper and F. Neate, 1971, Plant Collectors in West Africa: 79
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 V. Unpublished Exsiccatae: I. Collectors", Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 19(3): 404.
References
Hepper, F.N. & Neate, F., Pl. Collectors W. Africa (1971): 79; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. T-Z (1988): 1010;
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
François-Romain
Last name
Thollon
Initials
F.-R.
Life Dates
1855 - 1896
Collecting Dates
1883 - 1895
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Fungi
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
P (main), PC (main), BM, BR, E, FH, G, K, MO
Countries
Tropical Africa: Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Nigeria
Associate(s)
Savorgnan de Brazza, Pierre Paul François Camille (1852-1905) (co-collector)
Biography
François-Romain Thollon was a Parisian botanist who left his role as assistant head of the School of Botany in the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, to work in Gabon and the Congo from 1882. He served as a member of the de Brazza mission and sent large consignments of plants to the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He also made zoological collections and a number of species are named in his honour. Thollon remained in Congo for the rest of his life.
Sources:
1897, Bulletin de la Muséum d'Histoire Naturelles de Paris, 3: 73, 115-116
F.N. Hepper and F. Neate, 1971, Plant Collectors in West Africa: 79
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): 404.
Sources:
1897, Bulletin de la Muséum d'Histoire Naturelles de Paris, 3: 73, 115-116
F.N. Hepper and F. Neate, 1971, Plant Collectors in West Africa: 79
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): 404.
References
Hepper, F.N. & Neate, F., Pl. Collectors W. Africa (1971): 79; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. T-Z (1988): 1010;
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
François-Romain
Last name
Thollon
Initials
F.-R.
Life Dates
1855 - 1896
Collecting Dates
1883 - 1895
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Fungi
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
P (main), PC (main), BM, BR, E, FH, G, K, MO
Countries
Tropical Africa: Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Nigeria
Associate(s)
Savorgnan de Brazza, Pierre Paul François Camille (1852-1905) (co-collector)
Biography
François-Romain Thollon was a Parisian botanist who left his role as assistant head of the School of Botany in the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, to work in Gabon and the Congo from 1882. He served as a member of the de Brazza mission and sent large consignments of plants to the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He also made zoological collections and a number of species are named in his honour. Thollon remained in Congo for the rest of his life.
Sources:
1897, Bulletin de la Muséum d'Histoire Naturelles de Paris, 3: 73, 115-116
F.N. Hepper and F. Neate, 1971, Plant Collectors in West Africa: 79
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): 404.
Sources:
1897, Bulletin de la Muséum d'Histoire Naturelles de Paris, 3: 73, 115-116
F.N. Hepper and F. Neate, 1971, Plant Collectors in West Africa: 79
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): 404.
References
Hepper, F.N. & Neate, F., Pl. Collectors W. Africa (1971): 79; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. T-Z (1988): 1010;
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