Jean-Baptiste Barla
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Jean-Baptiste Barla was a French
botanist.
Barla was a man of independent means and dedicated himself to investigate the fungi and orchids of the South of France. "Cette végétation exceptionelle, doit évidemment sa richesse et sa variété à la configuration topographique, toute particulière, du bassin des Alpes-Maritimes. Dans ce pays favorisé par la nature, croissent la plupart des orchidées de France, d'Italie, d'Allemange, etc." (Introduction to illustrée de Nice et des Alpes-Maritimes).
In 1846 with Jean Baptiste Vérany
(1800–1865) he founded the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nice
where wax casts of thousands of mushrooms he made or had made were exhibited.
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
botanist.
Barla was a man of independent means and dedicated himself to investigate the fungi and orchids of the South of France. "Cette végétation exceptionelle, doit évidemment sa richesse et sa variété à la configuration topographique, toute particulière, du bassin des Alpes-Maritimes. Dans ce pays favorisé par la nature, croissent la plupart des orchidées de France, d'Italie, d'Allemange, etc." (Introduction to illustrée de Nice et des Alpes-Maritimes).
In 1846 with Jean Baptiste Vérany
Jean Baptiste Vérany
Chevalier Jean Baptiste Vérany was a French pharmacist and naturalist who specialised in the study of cephalopods.In 1846, with Jean-Baptiste Barla , he founded the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nice. Vérany discovered and described many species...
(1800–1865) he founded the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nice
Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nice
The Natural History Museum of Nice is a French natural-history museum located in Nice.-Origins:...
where wax casts of thousands of mushrooms he made or had made were exhibited.
Works
Partial list- 1855 Tableau comparatif des champignons comestibles et vénéreux de Nice Nice Impr. Canis Frères..
- 1859 Les Champignons De La Province De Nice Nice Impr. Canis Frères.
- 1885. Liste des champignons nouvellement observés dans le département des Alpes-MaritimesAlpes-MaritimesAlpes-Maritimes is a department in the extreme southeast corner of France.- History : was created by Octavian as a Roman military district in 14 BC, and became a full Roman province in the middle of the 1st century with its capital first at Cemenelum and subsequently at Embrun...
. Sous-Genre I.- AmanitaAmanitaThe genus Amanita contains about 600 species of agarics including some of the most toxic known mushrooms found worldwide. This genus is responsible for approximately 95% of the fatalities resulting from mushroom poisoning, with the death cap accounting for about 50% on its own...
. Bull. Soc. Mycol.France 1: 189-194. - 1886 Liste des champignons nouvellement observésndans le Département des Alpes-Maritimes. Bull. Soc. Mycol. France 2(3): 112–119.
- 1868 Flore illustrée de Nice et des Alpes-Maritimes. Iconographie des Orchidées. Nice, Caisson et Mignon. Dedicated to the Italian botanist Filippo ParlatoreFilippo ParlatoreFilippo Parlatore was an Italian botanist.Italian botanist, b. at Palermo, 8 Aug., 1816; d. at Florence, 9 Sept., 1877, a devout and faithful Catholic. He studied medicine at Palermo, but practiced only for a short time, his chief activity being during the cholera epidemic of 1837...
reprinted 1996.