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Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet

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191:, in August 1762 and spent the next two years collecting plants and assembling a vast herbarium. Aublet also worked with the local people to record the traditional uses of the native plants, and often used their names for the plants as the basis for the scientific names he bestowed upon taxa. His outspoken opposition to slavery was unusual for someone in his position and earned him the resentment of the local colonists who complained about his "corrupt" nature. When poor health forced his return to France in 1764, he felt obliged to obtain a letter from the Procurator General, testifying to his good and honorable conduct. 199:
describing 576 genera and 1,241 species of neotropical plants, including more than 400 species that were new to science. At a time when only 20,000 plants had been described, this represented a significant addition to botanical knowledge. Aublet also included essays on economically important plants
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After a brief stay in Haiti, Aublet continued on to Paris, arriving in 1765. With the help of Jussieu, his former mentor, he wrote descriptions of the plants he collected and prepared some 400 illustrations. In 1775 he published
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and wrote about the people of the colony; he is considered by some to be the "founding father" of ethnobotany in the Neotropics.
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When Aublet returned to France in 1762, he was appointed to a position as the King's apothecary and botanist in
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The Ethnobotany of Aublet's Histoire Des Plantes De La Guiane Françoise (1775)
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When Aublet died at Paris in 1778, he left part of his plant collection to
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in 1953. Aublet’s herbarium, drawings, and notes were purchased by
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in South America. He was one of the first botanists to study
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Salon-de-Provence
France
Paris
Author abbrev. (botany)
pharmacist
botanist
explorers
ethnobotany
Neotropics
Salon-de-Provence
Grenada
Bernard de Jussieu
French East India Company
Mauritius
pharmacy
botanical garden
Pierre Poivre
Mon Plaisir garden
Le Réduit
French Guiana
Isle de Cayenne
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
Joseph Banks
British Museum of Natural History
author abbreviation
citing
botanical name
IPNI gives this form of his name

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