> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 400](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120531) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1270-1) LSID 1270-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q229264) QID Q229264 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Buffon, Georges Louis Leclercq de (1707-1788), French naturalist, "intendant" of the Jardin des Plantes, highly gifted writer, spiritual father of the idea of descendence. **Abbreviated name**: *Buffon* \[standard form in IPNI: *Buffon*\] #### Collections Buffon is not known to have made botanical collections; his natural history material is all at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Paris. #### Note Even though Buffon did not describe any plant taxa his influence on systematic thinking has been so profound that a brief list of the most important and mainly more recent publications on him is in order here. #### Bibliography and biography AG 5(1): 777; Barnhart 1: 278; BM 1: 281-283; Bossert p. 58; Quenstedt p. 66-67. - Geoffroy St. Hilaire, Notice historique sur Buffon. Oeuvres complètes de Buffon, ed. Pillot 24. 1838 (bibl.) - Flourens, Buffon, histoire de ses travaux et de ses idées. Paris 1844, (*Copy*: MICH); ed. 2. 1850 (n.v.) - Nadault de Buffon, Correspondance inédite de Buffon. Paris 1860, 2 vols. (*Copy*: UC). - Bazile, Buffon, sa famille, sa collaborateurs et ses familiers. Paris 1863, xvi, 432 p. (5 portr.) - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 110. 1903, 3(3): 98. 1905 (ref. to portr.) - Fagin, William Bartram 20, 21, 38, 45. 1933. - Strohl, Buffon, Paris 1935, p. 1-18. - Lütjeharms, Gesch. Mykol. xviii Jahrh. 254 \[index\]. 1936. - Earnest, J. and W. Bartram 183. 1940. - François, Bull. Mus. nat. Hist. nat. ser. 2. 22: 675-681. 1950 (on rearrangement Jardin du Roi). - Bertin et al., Buffon. Paris 1952, 244 p., *25 pl*. (portr., bibl.) - Heilbrun, *in* Bertin *et al*, Buffon, 225-237. 1952 ("essai de bibliographie"). - Piveteau, Jean, ed., Oeuvres philosophiques de Buffon. Paris 1954. - Wohl, Isis 51: 186-199. 1960. - Roger, Mem. Mus. nat. Hist. nat. ser. 2. C. 10 (Buffon, les Epoques de la Nature). - Roger, Les sciences de la vie. 527-584. 1964. - Starobinsky, Gesnerus 21: 83-94. 1964 (Rousseau and B.) - Hanks, Buffon avant l'histoire naturelle. Paris 1966. - Nissen, Zool. Buchill. 72-80. 1966 (important bibl.) - Stafleu, Taxon 16(5): 431-435. 1967. - Kanaev, Iz. 1st. Biol. 2: 71-89. 1970 (Goethe and Buffon). - Roger, DSB 2: 576-582. 1970. - Hahn, The anatomy of a scientific inst. 337, 422. 1971. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 368 \[index\]. 1971. - Smit, History of the life sciences 889-890. 1974. #### Eponymy *Buffona* Cothenius (1790, *orth. var.*); *Buffonea* W. D.J. Koch (1836, *orth. var.*); *Buffonia* Adanson (1763, *orth. var.*); *Bufonia* Linnaeus (1753). #### Handwriting See Bertin et al., Buffon. Paris 1952.