Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse
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Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse or La Peirouse (20 October 1744, Toulouse
- 18 October 1818, château de Lapeyrouse
(Haute-Garonne
) was a French
naturalist
.
In 1782 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
.
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
- 18 October 1818, château de Lapeyrouse
Lapeyrouse-Fossat
Lapeyrouse-Fossat is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
(Haute-Garonne
Haute-Garonne
Haute-Garonne is a department in the southwest of France named after the Garonne river. Its main city is Toulouse.-History:Haute-Garonne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Languedoc.The...
) was a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
naturalist
Naturalist
Naturalist may refer to:* Practitioner of natural history* Conservationist* Advocate of naturalism * Naturalist , autobiography-See also:* The American Naturalist, periodical* Naturalism...
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In 1782 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences or Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. The Academy is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization which acts to promote the sciences, primarily the natural sciences and mathematics.The Academy was founded on 2...
.
Works
- Mémoires d'histoire naturelle : Description de quelques crystallisations. Histoire naturelle du Lagopède. Description de quelques plantes des Pyrénées (1774-1778)
- Mémoire sur la mortalité des ormes dans les environs de Toulouse (1787)
- Figures de la flore des Pyrénées, avec des descriptions (1795)
- Tables méthodiques des mammifères et des oiseaux observés dans le département de la Haute-Garonne (an VII)
- Histoire abrégée des plantes des Pyrénées et Itinéraire des botanistes dans ces montagnes (1813)
- Considérations sur les lycées, surtout par rapport aux départements (1815) Imprimé par le Conseil général de la Haute-Garonne et envoyé aux députés.
- Supplément à l'Histoire abrégée des plantes des Pyrénées (1818)
- (1861)