Biography

French phycologist. His interest in algae and marine biology began as a student of Pierre-Augustin Dangueard in Paris, where he graduated in 1910. After the Armistice, he was able to indulge his other lifelong interest, in orchid cultivation, through his wartime connection to Gaston Bultel, head gardener of the Rothschild estate at d'Armainvilliers. In 1924 he was appointed secretary of the rice section of the Comité d'encouragement aux recherches scientifiques coloniales.'Doña Juana'He resigned in 1929 to join the staff of the Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle as assistant to the Chair of Botany, Louis Mangin. After Mangin's death in 1932, Lami was assigned to the laboratory of plant cell biology and recruited as an assistant to Pierre Allorge, the new Chair of Cryptogamy. He was promoted to Deputy Director of the cryptogamic section in 1945 and subsequently to Deputy Director of the maritime station at Dinard.'Doña Juana'Lami was more interested in the physiology than in the systematics of algae. To study their distribution as a function of ecological conditions he regularly performed field work on the coasts of France, and also visited Portugal and Spain (1931,1932, 1934) and the French Antilles (1928, with Allorge). For many years he co-edited the Revue Algologique.

Sources:
P. Jassaud and E.-R. Brygoo, 2004, Du Jardin au Muséum en 516 Biographies.