Pierre Louis Jean Ivolas

{{Short description|French naturalist (1842–1908)}}

Pierre Louis Jean Ivolas (7 April 1842, in Sète – 29 June 1908, in Tours) was a French naturalist.{{cite web |url=http://www.tela-botanica.org/client/collection/actuelle/paca.php?contexte=paca&module=FichePersonne&id=102005 |title=Pierre Louis Jean Ivolas |author= |date=2014 |website=tela-botanica.org |publisher=Tela Botanica Network |access-date=2022-12-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140420073629/http://www.tela-botanica.org/client/collection/actuelle/paca.php?contexte=paca&module=FichePersonne&id=102005 |archive-date=2014-04-20}}

A professor at the Lycée Descartes in Tours, he is remembered for geological studies of central France and botanical investigations of Indre-et-Loire. He was a good friend of the botanist Ernest Henry Tourlet — Ivolas took over the completion of Catalogue raisonné des plantes vasculaires du département d'Indre-et-Loire

{{cite book |last=Tourlet |first=Ernest-Henry|authorlink=Ernest_Henry_Tourlet|editor-last=Ivolas|editor-first=Jean |date=1908 |title=Catalogue raisonné des plantes vasculaires du département d'Indre-et-Loire |trans-title=Critical catalogue of the vascular plants of the department of Indre-et-Loire |url=http://herbiertourlet.univ-tours.fr/LivreTourlet.pdf |language=fr |location=Paris |publisher=P. Klincksieck |oclc=458347264|access-date=2022-12-14}}

following the death of Tourlet in 1907.{{cite journal |last=Lutz |first=M. L. |date=1907 |title=Notice nécrologique sur Ernest-Henri Tourlet|trans-title=Obituary of Ernest-Henri Tourlet |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/326298#page/778/mode/1up |language=fr |journal=Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. |volume=54 |issue=9 |pages=704 |doi=10.1080/00378941.1907.10833384 |access-date=2022-12-09|doi-access=free }}

In 1879, he became a member of the Société Botanique de France.{{cite journal |author= |date=1908 |title=Liste des Membres de la Société botanique de France au 1er Janvier 1908 |trans-title=List of Members of the Botanical Society of France on January 1, 1908 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/272998#page/24/mode/1up |language=fr |journal=Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=xiv |doi=10.1080/00378941.1908.10831324 |access-date=2022-12-09|doi-access=free }} His herbarium is kept at the Herbarium of Montpellier University.{{cite web |url=https://www.tela-botanica.org/coel/appli/Coel.html#Collections |title=Herbier de Jean Ivolas |author= |date=2022-05-18 |website=tela-botanica.org |publisher=CoEL |access-date=2022-12-14}}

Publications

  • Contribution à l'étude paléontologique des faluns de la Touraine, 1900 (with A. Peyrot) – Contribution to the paleontological study of the faluns of Touraine.{{cite journal |last1=Ivolas |first1=Jean |last2=Peyrot |first2=A. |date=1900 |title=Contribution à l'étude paléontologique des faluns de la Touraine |trans-title=Contribution to the paleontological study of the faluns of Touraine |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/87606#page/125/mode/1up |language=fr |oclc=492532344

|journal=Act. Soc. Linn. Bord. |volume=55 |pages=99–250 |access-date=2022-12-14}}

  • Les jardins alpins; description, ressources, etc., de ceux actuellement connus en Europe, 1908 – Alpine gardens; description, resources, etc., of those currently known in Europe.

{{cite book |last=Ivolas |first=Jean |date=1908 |title=Les jardins alpins; description, ressources, etc., de ceux actuellement connus en Europe |trans-title=Alpine gardens; description, resources, etc., of those currently known in Europe |language=fr |location=Paris |publisher=P. Klincksiek |oclc=18010547}}

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