Albert Gaillard (5 September 1858 in

Neuilly-sur-Seine Neuilly-sur-Seine (; literally 'Neuilly on Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is a commune in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in France, just west of Paris. Immediately adjacent to the city, the area is composed of mostly select residentia ...

– 28 July 1903 in Angers) was a French

mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their genetics, genetic and biochemistry, biochemical properties, their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and ethnomycology, their use to humans, including as a so ...

. From 1889 to 1903, he worked as curator of the Lloyd

herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called ...

in Angers (later known as the " Arboretum de la Maulévrie Herbiers de la Ville d'Angers"). In 1887 he collected mycological and botanical specimens in Venezuela; mainly in the vicinity of

Puerto Ayacucho Puerto Ayacucho () is the capital and largest city of Amazonas State in Venezuela. Puerto Ayacucho is located across the Orinoco River from the Colombian village of Casuarito. The city was founded to facilitate the transport of goods past the ...

and places along the Orinoco River, journeying as far as

San Fernando de Atabapo San Fernando de Atabapo is a town in southern Venezuela on the border with Colombia. It was the capital city of the Amazonas state until the early 1900s. The population in 1997 was approximately 5,000. In the early twentieth century it was ru ...

. In

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, he collected specimens along the Rio Guaviare, a tributary of the Orinoco.JSTOR Global Plants
(biography) The

French Academy of Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific me ...

awarded the 1893 "Prix Montague" to Gaillard for his work on fungi. The genus ''

Gaillardiella ''Gaillardiella'' is a genus of fungi within the Bertiaceae family. It has been found 3 times in Costa Rica in the early 2000s at elevations 50, 250, and 650 meters. The genus name of ''Gaillardiella'' is in honour of Albert Gaillard (1858–1 ...

'' (family Nitschkiaceae) was named in his honor by Narcisse Théophile Patouillard in 1895.

Published works

* ''Champignons du Vénézuéla et principalement de la région du Haut-Orénoque, récoltés en 1887 par M.A. Gaillard''. Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France (1888–89) – Fungi of Venezuela, mainly from the region of the Upper Orinoco, collected in 1887 by A. Gaillard. (co-author: Narcisse Théophile Patouillard). * ''Contribution à l'étude des champignons inférieurs: famille des Périspoiacées, le genre Meliola : anatomie, morphologie, systématique'', (1892) – Contribution to the study of lower fungi, (genus Meliola : anatomy, morphology, systematics). * ''Le genre Meliola''. (part 1) Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France 8: 76- 8 (1892) – The genus

Meliola ''Meliola'' is a large genus of fungi in the family Meliolaceae. It was circumscribed by Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries in 1825. Species , Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life The Catalogue of Life is an online database that ...

. * ''Le genre Meliola'', (part 2) Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France 8 (4): 176-188. (1892) – The genus Meliola. * ''Note sur quelques espéces nouvelles du genre Asterina''. Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France 13: 179-181. (1897) – Note on some new species of the genus Asterina.Cybertruffle
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gaillard, Albert 1858 births 1903 deaths People from Neuilly-sur-Seine 19th-century French botanists French mycologists