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has sheets that are marked "Beauv.", but show plants native to India, a place never visited by
Palisot. Therefore, Palisot must have incorporated specimens from other collectors, which would explain the strange origin of some of the insects from his collection. Horn & Kahle (1937) state that some
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Using material that had survived all the disasters, as well as his sketches, he published a number of booklets on plants and insects, between 1805 and 1821. Griffin (1932, 1937) supplies the date of publication for each booklet which consisted of five to six plates, each depicting six or nine of the
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he also went to the United States to ask the aid of the government in reducing the
Haitian slaves to obedience. On his return from this useless mission in June 1793, he found the island in insurrection. An uprising by slaves resulted in the town being burnt, as was his uncle's home and Palisot's
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Palisot invented a new method of classification for insects, and proposed another for quadrupeds. He observed the details of the reproductive organs in mosses, and, as the existence of these organs was denied, he confirmed his first researches by new observations.
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Palisot finally received word from Paris that his citizenship had been restored, and began planning his return to Europe, especially the freighting of his collections. Dogged by misfortune, these collections were lost in a shipwreck off
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of two epiphytic leafy liverworts, one of which has never again been collected. However, most of his collection was destroyed when the
British invaded the colony and razed the trading post where his material was kept. An epidemic of
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by Chase (1925) and
Merrill (1937) and a summary is provided here to explain the uncertain origins of his material. Palisot trained as a lawyer but pursued postgraduate studies in botany under
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collections. Palisot was imprisoned, but later freed under order of deportation. Because of his title, Palisot understandably was reluctant to return to France in the aftermath of the
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were first described by him. Many of the specimens that were labelled from
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totally destitute. He joined a circus as a musician to earn some money, and finally obtained work curating the private botanical collection of the painter
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insects described in the text, and it is through these sketches, rather than by specimens, that
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