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Albert Marie Victor Lemée

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Albert Marie Victor Lemée
Born(1872-08-22)August 22, 1872[1]
DiedMay 21, 1961(1961-05-21) (aged 88)[2]
CitizenshipFrance
Scientific career
Author abbrev. (botany)Lemée
Author abbrev. (zoology)Lemée

Albert Marie Victor Lemée (1872 – 1961) was a French law graduate, zoologist, botanist and naturalist. He carried out important botanical explorations in French Guiana and present-day Vietnam. He worked for the French Ministry of the Colonies. A presidential decree appointing him an assistant inspector of colonies effective April 1, 1903 was not issued until April 4, 1903.[3] [1][4]

He died on May 22, 1961, in Rennes.[2]

Books

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  • Albert Marie Victor Lemée. 1955. Flore de la Guyane française: Dilléniacées à Composées. Volume 3 of Flore de la Guyane française. Published by Imprimerie commerciale et administrative, Brest
    • Listed in a different source as: Lemée, A. 1954. Flore de la Guyane Française. Tome III: Dilléniacées à Composées. XX+655 pp. Editions Paul Lechevalier, Paris. Reference page.
  • Albert Marie Victor Lemée. W. H. T. Tams. 1950. Contribution à l'étude des Lépidoptères du Haut-Tonkin (Nord Vietnam) et de Saïgon. Issues 1-10 of Contribution: Avec le concours pour diverses familles d'Hétérocères. Editor Libraries Lechevalier, 82 pp.
  • Albert Marie Victor Lemée. 1941. Dictionnaire descriptif et synonymique des genres de plantes phanérogames. Volume 8. Published by Imprimerie commerciale et administrative, Brest

Eponymy

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Bibliography used

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  • Walter Erhardt, Erich Götz, Allen J. Coombes, Nils Bödeker. 2009. The Timber Press dictionary of plant names. Illustrated Timber Press edition, 920 pp. ISBN 1604691158

References

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  1. ^ a b Barnhart, John Hendley (1965). Biographical Notes Upon Botanists, Volume 2. p. 367. LEMÉE, Albert Marie Victor b 22 Aug 1872
  2. ^ a b c d Camus, Aimée (1961). "Albert Lemée (1872–1961)". Adansonia nouvelle série. 1 (2): 145–149.
  3. ^ France (1903). "Recueil des proclamations et arrêtes des représentans du peuple français".
  4. ^ "Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries". kiki.huh.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Lemée.
  6. ^ Calyx 3(4): 153 (1993), nom. nov. (IK)