Jules Cardot

{{Short description|French botanist (1860–1934)}}

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Jules Cardot (18 August 1860 – 22 November 1934) was a French botanist and bryologist considered in his time one of the world's leading experts on the mosses of Antarctica.

He was the son-in-law of botanist Louis Piré.

His collection of herbarium specimens at his laboratories in Charleville was heavily looted and damaged during World War I.{{Citation

| title = Resolutions upon the Loss of the Collections and Library of M. Jules Cardot

| year = 1919

| journal = The Bryologist

| pages = 87–88

| volume = 22

| issue = 6

| last1 = Britton | first1 = Elizabeth G.

| last2 = Smith | first2 = Annie Morril

| last3 = Chamberlain | first3 = Edward B.

| last4 = Best | first4 = G. N.

| last5 = Conklin | first5 = George H.

| last6 = Evans | first6 = Alexander W.

| last7 = Grout | first7 = A. J.

| last8 = Haynes | first8 = Caroline C.

| last9 = Holzinger | first9 = J. M.

| last10 = Howe | first10 = Marshall A.

| last11 = Kaiser | first11 = George B.

| last12 = Jennings | first12 = O. E.

| last13 = Lorenz | first13 = Annie

| last14 = Nichols | first14 = George E.

| last15 = Plitt | first15 = Charles C.

| last16 = Riddle | first16 = L. W.

| last17 = Williams | first17 = R. S. | doi=10.1639/0007-2745(1919)22[87:rutlot]2.0.co;2}} The French Academy of Sciences awarded the 1893 "Prix Montague" to Cardot for his work on mosses.{{cite book|chapter=Tableaux des prix décernés|title=Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences|year=1894|volume=117|page=1006|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fp9DAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1006|last1=(France)|first1=Académie des Sciences}} (The French Academy awarded the 1893 prizes on 18 December 1893.){{cite book|chapter=Science Prizes|title=American Naturalist|publisher=U. of Chicago Press|year=1894|volume=28|page=290|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fycuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA290}} Cardot named 40 genera and 1200 species.[http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000001274 Cardot, Jules (1860–1934), jstor.org]