Le Brassus
Le Brassus is a village in the Vallée de Joux in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. It is part of the municipality Le Chenit.Sainte-Croix) was a Swiss botanist.
From 1888 to 1926 he was a schoolteacher in the community of La Chaux, located near Sainte-Croix (
Canton of Vaud
Vaud ( ; french: (Canton de) Vaud, ; german: (Kanton) Waadt, or ), more formally the canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts and its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms ...
). In 1922 he obtained an honorary doctorate from the
University of Lausanne
The University of Lausanne (UNIL; french: links=no, Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzer ...
lichenology
Lichenology is the branch of mycology that studies the lichens, symbiotic organisms made up of an intimate symbiotic association of a microscopic alga (or a cyanobacterium) with a filamentous fungus.
Study of lichens draws knowledge from several ...
and
bryology
Bryology (from Greek , a moss, a liverwort) is the branch of botany concerned with the scientific study of bryophytes ( mosses, liverworts, and hornworts). Bryologists are people who have an active interest in observing, recording, classifying ...
liverwort
The Marchantiophyta () are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of ...
s), and is also known for his research of Myxomycetes.Meylan Herbarium CJB - Collections
Taxa with the specific epithet of ''meylanii'' honor him, two examples being ''Calypogeia meylanii'' and ''Hymenostomum meylanii''.
Published works
He was the author of 80 published works. With
Jules Amann Jean Jules Amann (8 March 1859, Lausanne – 1 February 1939, Lausanne) was a Swiss pharmacist and botanist. He was a leading expert on mosses native to Switzerland.
and Paul Frédéric Culmann, he was co-author of ''Flore des mousses de la Suisse'' (1912). Flore des mousses de la Suisse Online Books Page In 1924 he published a book on Swiss liverworts, titled ''Les hépatiques de la Suisse'' and in 1940, at the age of 72, he published ''Les Muscinées du Parc National Suisse'' (Mosses from the
Swiss National Park
The Swiss National Park ( rm, Parc Naziunal Svizzer; german: Schweizerischer Nationalpark; it, Parco Nazionale Svizzero; french: Parc National Suisse) is located in the Western Rhaetian Alps, in eastern Switzerland. It is within the canton of ...