The portrait of Nestor Léon Marchand

Nestor Léon Marchand (15 April 1833 – 16 April 1911) was a French medical doctor, pharmacist, and botanist. He is known for his studies of the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae.

He studied in Tours and Paris, subsequently earning a bachelor of science degree (1860), a doctorate in medicine (1861), a first-class license in pharmacy (1864) and a doctorate in natural sciences (1867).[1] He later became a professor of botanical cryptogamy at the École supérieure de pharmacie in Paris.[2] He was mayor of Thiais, France from 1881 to 1887.[1]

Selected publications

  • Du Croton tiglium : recherches botaniques et thérapeutiques, 1861 - Croton tiglium: botanical and therapeutic research.
  • Recherches organographiques et organogéniques sur le Coffea arabica L., 1864 - Organographic and organogenic research of Coffea arabica.
  • Recherches sur l'organisation des burséracées, 1868 - Research on the organization of Burseraceae
  • Histoire de l'ancien groupe des térébin-thacées, 1869 - History of the former group Terebinthaceae. Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Enumération des Substances fournies a la Médecine et a la Pharmacie par l'ancien Groupe des Térébinthacées . LaHure, Paris 1869 Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Botanique cryptogamique pharmaco-médicale: Programme raisonné d'un cours professé à l'Ecole supérieure de pharmacie de Paris, 1880.
  • Révision du groupe des Anacardiacées - Revision involving the group Anacardiaceae.
  • Synopsis et tableau synoptique des familles qui composent la classe des mycophytes (Champignons et Lichens), 1894 - Synopsis with a synoptic table of families that make up the class of mycophytes (mushrooms and lichens).[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Société d'Histoire de la Pharmacie G. Dillemann. Historique des Facultés de pharmacie. Produits et problèmes pharmaceutiques, années 1970
  2. ↑ Google Books Catalogue des thèses de sciences: soutenues en France de 1810 à 1890 ... by Albert Maire
  3. ↑ OCLC Classify (publications)
  4. ↑ International Plant Names Index.  Marchand.


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