> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 286](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265483) of TL-2 Suppl. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/920-1) LSID 920-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2382236) QID Q2382236 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Boivin, Louis Hyacinthe|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Boivin, Louis Hyacinthe (1808-1852), French botanist and plant collector, born at Compiègne (Oise), studied medicine but turned to botany, student of Desfontaines and Adrien de Jussieu in Paris, ca. 1830 active at Mende (Lozère) with Mougeot, through Gaudichaud sent to the Indian Ocean (mainly Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion), also collecting on the coasts of Africa 1846-1852, died on the journey back to France in the hospital at Brest. **Abbreviated name**: *Boivin* \[standard form in IPNI: *Boivin*\] #### Herbarium and types Major collections at [[Collection P|P]] and [[Collection PC|PC]], further material at (see IH 2: 83): [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection CAS|CAS]], [[Collection CN|CN]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection NEU|NEU]], [[Collection TAN|TAN]], [[Collection TCD|TCD]], [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection WB|WB]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(2): 282; Barnhart 1: 212 (b. 27 Aug 1808, d. 7 Dec 1852); CSP 7: 208; Hortus 3: 1189; IH 2: 83; Lasègue p. 102, 296; PR p. 33; TL-2/1: 261; Urban-Berl. p. 294, 319, 331. #### Biofile - Anon., Flora 29: 527. 1846 (to Africa), 36: 600. 1853. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 397. 1880. - Christensen, C., Dansk bot. Ark. 7: vii-viii. 1932. - Duchartre, P.E.S., Rev. bot. 1: 478-479. 1846 (left Paris for Africa). - Fournier, E., *in* H.E. Baillon, Dict. bot. 1: 443-444. 1877. - Gunn, M. and L.E. Codd, Bot. expl. S. Afr. 71, 95. 1981 (coll. at Cape). - Hedge, I.C. and J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 61. 1970. - Hepper, F.N. and F. Neate, Pl. coll. W. Africa 11. 1971. - Hooker, W.J., J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 5: 283. 1853 (on colls. sent to K). - Humbert, H., C.R. AETFAT 4: 131-132. 1962. - Jaubert, H.F., Bull. Soc. bot. France 1: 225-239. 1854 (major biogr.). - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 293. 1975 (coll.). - Steinberg, C.M., Monogr. Biol. Canar. 4: 5, 18, 32. 1973 (coll. Canary Isl. and facsimile of a label of B.; other handwriting sample on p. 6, no. 1).