Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse

Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse or La Peirouse, Baron de Lapeyrouse (20 October 1744 in Toulouse – 18 October 1818 in château de Lapeyrouse (Haute-Garonne) was a French naturalist.

Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse
Quartz prase. Found by Picot de Lapeyrouse and Dolomieu in 1793
Volumes of the herbarium, of Philippe Picot de Lapeyrouse MHNT
Saxifraga longifolia [1]

He was particularly interested in the flora and fauna of the Pyrenees.[2] After the revolution, he became the first professor of natural history in Toulouse and his collections, from 1796, were housed in the former Carmelite Monastery of Toulouse which went on to become the Muséum de l'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse.[3]

In 1782 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1800 he was mayor of Toulouse.[4]

The genus Lapeirousia in the family Iridaceae was named after him by his friend Pierre André Pourret, and not, as is sometimes erroneously stated, after the French mariner, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse.[5][6]

Works

Bibliography
  • Pierre Raymond, Essai de zoologie, soutenu le 7 fructidor, an X. Thèse sous la présidence de Picot-Lapeyrouse.


gollark: Addition is commutative. Switching the order of the terms right cannot possibly change the solutions to the quadratic.
gollark: It is not. Again, a isn't "the first thing" but "the x^2 thing".
gollark: That is also true but not what I mean here.
gollark: This is called commutativity.
gollark: It's entirely valid to reorder things you're adding together and the answer is the same.

References
  1. Picot de Lapeyrouse, P.-I. 1795. "Figures de la flore des Pyrénées, avec des descriptions t.2".
  2. "Muséum de Toulouse blog: Philippe Picot de Lapeyrouse" (in French). Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  3. "Musuéum de Toulouse:Quelques dates de l'histoire du Muséum..." (in French). Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  4. Stafleu, F.A. & Cowan, R.S. 1979. "Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types Vol 2, Authors H-Le". Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  5. Chittenden, Fred J. Ed., Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening, Oxford 1951
  6. Clos, M. D. Pourret et son Histoire des Cistes. Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences inscriptions et belles-lettres de Toulouse. 1858. pp. 244-265 (p. 248).
  7. IPNI.  Lapeyr.


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