Dominique Clos
French physician and botanist
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Dominique Clos (25 May 1821, Sorèze – 19 August 1908) was a French physician and botanist.
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| Born | 25 May 1821 |
| Died | 19 August 1908 (aged 87) |
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| Fields | botany |
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He studied medicine and sciences in Toulouse and Paris, obtaining his medical degree in 1845 and his PhD in natural sciences in 1848. In 1853 he succeeded Alfred Moquin-Tandon as professor of botany at the University of Toulouse, maintaining this position until his retirement in 1889.[1] At Toulouse, he made major contributions to its botanical garden and herbarium.[2] From 1881 to 1908, he was a correspondent-member of the Académie des sciences.
He was the author of numerous works on descriptive botany, plant teratology, phytogeography and agricultural botany.[2] As a taxonomist, he described many species from various plant families.[3] Taxa with the specific epithet of closianus are named in his honor'[4] an example being Astragalus closianus.[5]
Partial bibliography
- Etudier les fluides des végétaux et les comparer à ceux des animaux, Montpellier, (May 1851).
- Première leçon faite à la Faculté des sciences de Toulouse, le 25 mai 1853, pour l'ouverture du cours de botanique, Toulouse : impr. de Bonnal et Gibrac, (1853).
- Fascicule d'observations de tératologie végétale, Toulouse : impr. de Douladoure frères, (1859).
- Considérations sur les graines envisagées du point de vue agricole, Toulouse : impr. de Douladoure frères, (1859).
- Coup-d'oeil sur la végétation de la partie septentrionale du département de l'Aude, Bordeaux : Maison Lafargue, (1863).
- Coup d'oeil sur les principes qui servent de base aux classifications botaniques modernes, Toulouse : Impr. Douladoure, (1869).
- Le polymorphisme floral et la phytographie, Paris : Au secrétariat de l'association, (1893).[6]
- L'Astragale en faux, plante fourragère, Paris : au siège social de la Société nationale d'acclimatation de France, (1895).[1]