Georges Coutagne [SEP] date of death
Georges Coutagne
Georges Coutagne (20 September 1854, in Lyon – 18 August 1928, in Saint-Genis-Laval) was a French biologist, botanist, engineer, malacologist and naturalist.
From 1871 to 1913 he was a member of the "Société linnéenne de Lyon"; in 1912 he was named vice-president of the "Société d'agriculture de Lyon".
Partial list of works.
- "De l'influence de la temperature sur le développement des végétaux", 1882 - The influence of temperature on
the 1,685 species that he named, Johannes Paulus Lotsy referred to them as "Jordanianas", while Georges Coutagne called them "Jordanias". In a September 15, 1874 issue of Revue des deux Mondes, Jules Émile Planchon published an article regarding Jordan's narrow division of species, titled ""Le morcellement de l'espèce en botanique et le Jordanisme"" (The fragmentation of botanical species and "Jordanism").
During his lifetime, he created one of the largest herbariums known to exist, as he acquired exsiccatae