Joseph Hugues Boissieu (de) La Martinière, also called Joseph La Martinière (1758,

Saint-Marcellin, Isère Saint-Marcellin () is a commune in the Isère department, in southeastern France, 51 km from Grenoble. The town is served by a railway station, on the line from Valence to Grenoble. Population Twin towns Saint-Marcellin is twinned w ...

- 1788,

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, Solomon Islands) was a French doctor of medicine and botanist and biologist. He disappeared in the Pacific whilst a member of the La Pérouse expedition.

Life

Joseph Boissieu (de) La Martinière was from the Boissieu-Perrin family, an old middle-class family of the

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. His father Jean-Joseph Boissieu was a doctor of medicine attached to the faculty of the

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who served a term as ''consul'' at Saint-Marcellin. The son Joseph was trained at Montpellier. As a member of the Lapérouse expedition, Joseph escaped death at the hands of natives in the islands of

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in December 1787, by swimming to a boat, without losing the plant specimens he held above water in one hand. In the course of the voyage La Martinière sent correspondence and interim reports back to France, one cache that was carried overland from Russian Asia in 1787, and another that was conveyed back from Australia by the British merchant ship ‘Alexander’ in 1788; the finds included newly discovered

helminth Parasitic worms, also known as helminths, are a polyphyletic group of large macroparasites; adults can generally be seen with the naked eye. Many are intestinal worms that are soil-transmitted and infect the gastrointestinal tract. Other par ...

s, crustaceans and the first

copepod Copepods (; meaning 'oar-feet') are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat (ecology), habitat. Some species are planktonic (living in the water column), some are benthos, benthic (living on the sedimen ...

identified in the

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. In 1788, the two ships of the expedition foundered at

in the

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and were lost. His brother Pierre Joseph Didier de Boissieu ( fr) (1754 - 1812) was a deputy to the

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who did not vote for the King's death.

Namesakes

Places

Two French streets bear his name:: * rue La Martinière, at

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(

Isère Isère ( , ; ; , ) is a landlocked Departments of France, department in the southeastern French Regions of France, region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Named after the river Isère (river), Isère, it had a population of 1,271,166 in 2019.

) * rue Joseph de La Martinière, in the new ''quartier de la Rouvière Longue'' at

Murviel-lès-Montpellier Murviel-lès-Montpellier (, literally ''Murviel near Montpellier''; Languedocien: ''Mervièlh'') is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France France, officially the French Republic, is a country loc ...

Botany

Two flowering plants in the genus ''Bossiaea'' commemorate his name in Latinised form: * ''

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'' * '' Bossiaea prostrata''''Bossiaea prostrata''
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Zoology

A fish parasite in the

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family carries his name: *''Capsala martinierei'' (

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), 1811).

Notes

External links

''Les manants du roi''

David M. Damkaer, ''The copepodologist's cabinet: a biographical and bibliographical history'', 2002

References

* Cordier, Henri. (1916). "''Deux compagnons de La Pérouse,''" in ''Bulletin de la section de géographie'', Paris; Cited on livre-rare-book.com en 01/2003. * Damkaer, David M. (2002). ''The Copepodologist's Cabinet: a biographical and bibliographical history.'' Diane Publishing, . {{DEFAULTSORT:Boissieu La Martiniere, Joseph Hugues 1758 births 1788 deaths People from Saint-Marcellin, Isère 18th-century French physicians 18th-century French biologists French naturalists 18th-century French botanists