Giulio Camus, also Jules (1 June 1847 in Magny-en-Vexin – 25 January 1917 in

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

) was a French

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

and

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. Giulio Camus was a professor at the

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. He wrote'' L'opera salernitana "Circa Instans" ed il testo primitivo del Grant Herbier en français – secondo due codici del sec. XV conservati nella Regia Biblioteca Estense'' in ''Memorie della Regia Accademia di Scienze Lettere ed Arti di Modena'', IV (1886) and ''Les noms des plantes du Livre d’Heures d’Anne de Bretagne'' ''J. Bot''. 8:325–335, 345–352, 366–375, 396–401 (1894).

References

De Toni G. B.,1918 In memoria del socio Prof. Giulio Camus (1847–1917) 1918 ''Memorie R. Acc. Sc. Lett. ed Arti in Modena'', Ser. III. Vol. XII. {{DEFAULTSORT:Camus, Giulio 1847 births 1917 deaths People from Val-d'Oise French entomologists 19th-century French botanists Italian entomologists Academic staff of the University of Turin 20th-century French botanists