Henri Ernest Baillon

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Henri Ernest Baillon ({{IPA|fr|ɑ̃ʁi ɛʁnɛst bajɔ̃}}; 30 November 1827 in Calais – 19 July 1895 in Paris) was a French botanist and physician.

Baillon spent his academic life teaching natural history and publishing numerous works on botany. He was appointed to the Légion d'honneur in 1867, joined the Royal Society in 1894 and put together the Dictionnaire de botanique with Auguste Faguet's wood engravings.[https://books.google.com/books?id=A68qyOyhOdkC&dq=Baillonia+Henri&pg=PA255 Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms ...] by Umberto Quattrocchi

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Étude générale du groupe des Euphorbiacées (1858)
Monographie des Buxacées et des Stylocérée (1859)
Recherches organogéniques sur la fleur femelle des Conifères (1860)
Recherches sur l’organisation, le développement et l’anatomie des Caprifoliacées (1864)
Adansonia, recueil périodique d’observations botaniques (12 volumes, 1866–1879)
[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/40796#/summary Histoire des plantes (thirteen volumes, 1867-1895)]
Dictionnaire de botanique (four volumes, 1876–1892)
Histoire naturelle des plantes de Madagascar (three volumes)
Traité de botanique médicale phanérogamique (1883-1884).
{{cite journal|last1=Baillon|first1=M. H.|author-link=Henri Baillon|title=L'organisation et les affinités des Campynémées|journal=Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Paris|date=1 November 1893|volume=2|issue=140|pages=1105–1109|url=https://archive.org/stream/bulletinmensueld2101soci#page/1104/mode/2up|language=fr}}
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Category:Botanists with author abbreviations

Category:19th-century French botanists

Category:1827 births

Category:1895 deaths

Category:Foreign members of the Royal Society

Category:Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences

Category:Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala