John Isaac BRIQUET (Geneva 1870-1931), Swiss botanist, curat - Lot 198

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John Isaac BRIQUET (Geneva 1870-1931), Swiss botanist, curat - Lot 198
John Isaac BRIQUET (Geneva 1870-1931), Swiss botanist, curator and later director of the Jardin Botanique de Genève; greatly contributed to the adoption of the rules of botanical nomenclature. 5 autograph letters signed to "monsieur et honoré confrère", to mycologist Émile Boudier (1828-1920) and to botanist and mycologist Émile Perrot (1867-1951). 9 pp. in-8 and in-12. Entries from the Conservatoire et jardin botanique de Genève (Herbier Delessert). Geneva, 1893-1910. One card folded and slightly soiled, quarter-page blank cut-out. Correspondence relating to botany and plant classification. "I have read with the greatest interest your article on the characters that anatomy can provide for the classification of plants; and I assure you that the profound and general views that are so clearly set out in it will lead me to salutary reflections on many points of view that I had somewhat neglected. You have announced work on the position of characeae in the plant system. It may interest you to know that the point of view you support was defended by Dr. Müller, my systematics master, many years ago. Müller's opinion is set out in the following two articles [...]".
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