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Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse or La Peirouse, Baron de Lapeyrouse (20 October 1744 in

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...

– 18 October 1818 in château de Lapeyrouse,

Haute-Garonne Haute-Garonne (; oc, Nauta Garona, ; en, Upper Garonne) is a department in the Occitanie region of Southwestern France. Named after the river Garonne, which flows through the department. Its prefecture and main city is Toulouse, the country's ...

) was a French naturalist. He was particularly interested in the flora and fauna of the

Pyrenees The Pyrenees (; es, Pirineos ; french: Pyrénées ; ca, Pirineu ; eu, Pirinioak ; oc, Pirenèus ; an, Pirineus) is a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain. It extends nearly from its union with the Cantabrian Mountains to C ...

. After the revolution, he became the first professor of natural history in Toulouse and his collections, from 1796, were housed in the former Carmelite Monastery of Toulouse which went on to become the Muséum de l'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse. In 1782 he was elected a foreign member of the

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( sv, Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special ...

. In 1800 he was mayor of Toulouse. The

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Lapeirousia ''Lapeirousia'' is a genus in the plant family Iridaceae. It is endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, about a third of the species occurring in fynbos. Origin of the generic name The genus ''Lapeirousia'' was described by Pierre André Pourret in Mé ...

'' in the

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was named after him by his friend

Pierre André Pourret Pierre André Pourret (1754–1818) was a French abbot and botanist who did research and teaching in France and Spain. He described and collected large amounts of plant species, especially from the Mediterranean, and amassed many species in hi ...

, and ''not'', as is sometimes erroneously stated, after the French mariner,

Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (; variant spelling: ''La Pérouse''; 23 August 17411788?), often called simply Lapérouse, was a French naval officer and explorer. Having enlisted at the age of 15, he had a successful naval caree ...

.Chittenden, Fred J. Ed., Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening, Oxford 1951Clos, M. D. Pourret et son Histoire des Cistes. Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences inscriptions et belles-lettres de Toulouse. 1858. pp. 244-265 (p. 248)

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Works

* ''Mémoires d'histoire naturelle : Description de quelques crystallisations. Histoire naturelle du Lagopède. Description de quelques plantes des Pyrénées'' (1774-1778) * ''Mémoire sur la mortalité des ormes dans les environs de Toulouse'' (1787)
''Figures de la flore des Pyrénées, avec des descriptions'' (1795)
(available for download) * ''Tables méthodiques des mammifères et des oiseaux observés dans le département de la Haute-Garonne'' (an VII)
''Histoire abrégée des plantes des Pyrénées et Itinéraire des botanistes dans ces montagnes'' (1813)
* ''Considérations sur les lycées, surtout par rapport aux départements'' (1815) Imprimé par le Conseil général de la Haute-Garonne et envoyé aux députés.
''Supplément à l'Histoire abrégée des plantes des Pyrénées'' (1818)
* ' (1861)

Bibliography

*Pierre Raymond, ''Essai de zoologie, soutenu le 7 fructidor, an X''. Thèse sous la présidence de Picot-Lapeyrouse.

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* Stafleu, F.A. & Cowan, R.S. 1979. 1744 births 1818 deaths 19th-century French botanists French ornithologists Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 18th-century French botanists {{ornithologist-stub