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René Viguier (19 May 1880 in Paris – 17 January 1931 in Caen) was a French botanist known for his investigations of plants within the family Araliaceae.〔(IPNI ) Taxa described and co-described by Viguier.〕 He worked as a préparateur at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle with Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, afterwards serving as ''maître de conférences'' at the Sorbonne. In 1912 he collected botanical specimens in Madagascar with Jean-Henri Humbert. From 1919 to 1931 he was a professor of botany at the University of Caen as well as director of city's botanical garden.〔(Biodiversity Heritage Library ) Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications〕〔(Prosopo ) Sociétés savantes de France〕〔(Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names ) by Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton〕 He was a member of the ''Société botanique de France'' (1904), the ''Société linnéenne de Lyon'' (1921) and the ''Société linnéenne de Normandie'' (1919). In 1927 he founded the ''Archives de botanique''.〔 The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Prix de Coincy for 1909. The grass genus ''Viguierella'' was named in his honor by Aimée Antoinette Camus (1926).〔 Taxa with the specific epithet of ''viguieri'' are also named after him,〔 an example being the grass species ''Cephalostachyum viguieri''. == Selected works == * ''Recherches anatomiques sur la classification des Araliacées'', 1906 – Anatomical research on the classification of Araliaceae. * ''Contribution à l'étude de la flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie : Araliacées'', 1913 – Contributions to the study of New Caledonian flora, Araliaceae. * ''Guttifères nouvelles de Madagascar'', 1914 (with Jean-Henri Humbert) – New Guttiferae of Madagascar.〔(WorldCat Search ) publications〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「René Viguier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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