Auguste Plée
{{Short description|French naturalist (died 1825)}}
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Auguste Plée, born 1787 in Paris and died 17 August 1825 in Fort Royal, Martinique, was a French naturalist.
Biography
Between 1821 and 1823 he was sketching military installations, ports and towns in Puerto Rico.{{Cite web|url=http://www.preb.com/ref/aplee.htm|title=Dibujos sobre Puerto Rico del naturalista Auguste Plée (1821-1823)|accessdate=6 June 2011}} (in Spanish). After travelling extensively, and forming numerous collections of plants, he fell sick and died in Martinique.{{Appletons'|wstitle=Plée, Auguste|year=1900|page=40|volume=5|inline=1}}
Legacy
Four species of Caribbean reptiles are named in honor of Plée: Diploglossus pleii, Gymnophthalmus pleii, Mastigodryas pleei, and Pholidoscelis plei.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Plee", p. 208).
Writings
His principal works were: Le jeune botaniste, ou entretiens d'un père avec son fils sur la botanique et la physiologie végétale, etc.; (2 vols., Paris, 1812), and Journal de Voyage du Botaniste Auguste Plée, a Travers les Antilles, les Guyanes et le Bresil (2 vols., Paris, 1828). The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) in Paris published a catalog of Plée's collection in three volumes in 1830.Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (1957). [https://books.google.com/books?id=LJMuAQAAIAAJ Les Botanistes Française en Amérique du Nord Avant 1850: Paris 11-14 Septembre 1956]. Centre national de la recherche scientifique. p. 193. (in French).
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References
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Further reading
- Raymond, Louis-Marcel (1957). Auguste Plée (1787–1825) et la flore américaine. Paris. (in French).
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Category:19th-century French botanists
Category:Flora of the Caribbean