Charles Frédéric MARTINS (1806-1889), botanist and geologist - Lot 22

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Charles Frédéric MARTINS (1806-1889), botanist and geologist - Lot 22
Charles Frédéric MARTINS (1806-1889), botanist and geologist. He was director of the Montpellier plant garden, where he had a large greenhouse built, which now bears his name. He kept up an abundant correspondence with Charles Darwin. Set of 7 L.A.S. (one on a postcard), addressed to his colleague Dominique-Alexandre Godron, botanist and director of the botanical garden of Nancy. Montpellier, Florence and Paris, 1851-1879. 16 pp. in-8 and 1 p. in-12 oblong. A preserved envelope. Interesting scientific correspondence. Martins congratulates Godron for his research on Aegilops, monocotyledonous plants of the family Poaceae, asks for a specimen "in good condition" and, in spite of the calcareous waters of his pond, he "would like to try the nuphar pumilum", a kind of dwarf water lily; he wrote to Jacques Étienne Gay about the Althérnia (waters of the ponds of Valcarès) in order to get one; he received a book for Hewett Cottrell Watson (1804-1881), English phrenologist and botanist, defender of the theory of evolution, and specifies the address of the latter. Martins welcomes the republication of Godron's work, Florula juvenalis or Enumeration of the foreign plants which grow naturally in the Port Juvenal, near Montpellier and celebrates his nomination to the Institute: "one finally did justice to a life devoted entirely to science and to the publication of numerous works which contributed to its progress". He met in Naples the Italian botanists Giovanni Gussone (1787-1866) and Guglielmo Gasparrini (1804-1866) who gave him some fruit seeds, saw in Rome Petro Sanguinetti and was to see in Florence the Sicilian botanist Filippo Parlatore (1816-1877). He postpones the inauguration of the busts of the Swiss botanist Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841) and of the Montpellier native Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud (1772-1804), naturalist and father of malacology. He also evokes the Sahara, the Pyrenees, the alpine flora and many of their botanist colleagues, living or dead: Alire Raffeneau-Delile (1778-1850), Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829), Édouard Bérard (1825-1889), Jacques Étienne Gay (1786-1864), Dr Touchy, botanist and curator of the herbaria at the Montpellier Botanical Gardens, Charles Grenier (1808-1875), etc.
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