Louis Claude Marie (Louis) (Claude) Richard
1754–1821
French botanist. Studied mineralogy, zoology, comparative anatomy, and botany at the Collège Mazarin in Paris. Sent by the French government to French Guiana, where he was director of the botanic garden and took part in expeditions in that country, parts of Brazil, and the Antilles, 1781–9. Professor of botany at the École de médicine, Paris, 1795.
Sources
JSTOR Global Plants, plants.jstor.org (accessed 24 June 2016)
Urban ed. 1898–1928, 3: 111–12
Bibliography
Urban, Igatius, ed. 1898–1928. Symbolae Antillanae seu fundamenta florae Indiae Occidentalis. 9 vols. Leipzig: Fratres Borntraeger. Paris: Paul Klincksieck. London: Williams & Norgate.
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