Odon DEBEAUX (Agen 1826-1910), botanist, explorer and milita - Lot 13

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Odon DEBEAUX (Agen 1826-1910), botanist, explorer and milita - Lot 13
Odon DEBEAUX (Agen 1826-1910), botanist, explorer and military pharmacist, made several botanical explorations in Algeria and China. 6 autograph letters signed to botanist and mycologist Casimir Roumeguère (1828-1892), Toulouse. 21 pp. in-8. Perpignan, 1873-1875. Very interesting correspondence devoted to botany and conchyliology, one of the letters is accompanied by a lithographed plate for the Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. He sends her autograph letters from botanists and asks for her brochures on mosses and conchyliology in return. "I have not forgotten either that I promised you a collection of my algae from Corsica. I'm working every day on my catalog of these algae, and only when it's finished will it be possible to have the labels autographed. As for the Chinese and other shells, I was unable to deal with them in Agen. I was too seriously indisposed to be able to prepare a small consignment of these molluscs for you [...]". He is related to the family of the late botanist Saint-Amans. "The house (known as the château) has always been uninhabited, and it no longer contains any of the old collections assembled by St Amans the father. The herbarium, library and botanical papers were given to Dr Louis Amblard, my friend, by Casimir St Amans [...]. Our friend Duval-Jouve wrote to me recently to tell me that my Cyperus Bubanii had not ceased to bother him, and that at last he had found its true baptismal name. It's the Cymosus variety of Allioni's Cyperus globosus. This Cymosus Wilk. et Lange variety (C. eraysostis Clemente) is described in prodrom. Flor. Hispanica by these authors. It's a good find for the flora of Roussillon [...]. But I have a magnificent Rosa of the sempervirens group with a globular, glandular flower bud, which constitutes a magnificent new species, on which I shall prepare a note [...]", etc.
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