> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 943](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190414) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8667-1) LSID 8667-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21607477) QID Q21607477 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Roussel, Alexandre Victor (1795-1874), French military pharmacist and botanist from Melun, Seine-et-Marne; stationed in various garrisons in France (e.g. Toulon, Metz) 1820-1835; stationed in Algeria as principal pharmacist for the military hospitals 1835-1838; ultimately principal pharmacist at the Paris Hôpital du Val-de-Grace. **Abbreviated name**: *A. Roussel* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Roussel*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection P|P]] & [[Collection PC|PC]]; other material at [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MPU|MPU]] (herb. J. Vichet). – Letters to J.B. Mougeot at [[Collection P|P]] (Bibl. centr. 137 nos., 1838-1858). Library dispersed by sale (5 Apr 1875). #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(1): 163; Bossert p. 340 (b. 28 Jul 1795, d. 17 Dec 1874); CSP 8: 790, 11: 230; GR p. 348-349; Jackson p. 369 (err. sub E. Roussel); LS 23117, 23118 (err. sub E. Roussel); TL-2/see P.T. Husnot (in index err. as E. Roussel); TR 6236. #### Biofile - Anon., Bull. Soc. bot. France 22: 109. 1875 (herb. bought by P.). - Cosson, E., Comp. fl. atl. 1: 87. 1881. - Cosson, E. & Durieu, Exp. sci. Alger. Bot. 2: xliv. 1868. - Hertel, H., Mitt. Bot. München 16: 425. 1980. - Husnot, T., Rev. Bryol. 2: 16 (d.), 48 (sale library), 104 (herb. bought by P). 1875. - Maire, R., Progr. conn. bot. Algérie 23, 180, 188. 1931. - Roumeguère, C., Bull. Soc. bot. France 22: 6-9. 1875 (obit., b. 28 Jul 1795, d. 17 Dec 1874; "Que dans ce mouvement des hommes et des choses nous restions attachés aux études qui ont si bien rempli notre temps..." \[Roussel\]). - Seynes, J. de, Bull. Soc. bot. France 21: 381. 1874 (1875) (d.). - Urban, I., Symb. ant. 1: 141. 1898. #### Eponymy *Rousselia* Gaudichaud-Beaupré (1830), fide Roumeguère 1875. #### Handwriting Webbia 32(1): 34. 1977 (no. 66).