François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise [SEP] place of death
François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise
François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise (5 July 1780 in Paris – 13 March 1851 in Paris) was a French physician, botanist and mycologist.
In 1803 he obtained his medical doctorate, afterwards serving as "chef de clinique" at the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris. He was a member of the Académie nationale de médecine and a correspondent member of the "Société linnéenne de Lyon" (1824–1851).
He was the taxonomic authority of the lichenized fungi genus "Lasallia" and
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- Mérat – François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise (1780–1851)
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