> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 532](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120663) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1753-1) LSID 1753-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q595066) QID Q595066 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Commerson, Philibert (1727-1773), French naturalist, explorer and circumnavigator with Bougainville on *La Boudeuse* and *L'Étoile* (1766-1769) **Abbreviated name**: *Commerson* \[standard form in IPNI: *Comm.*\] #### Herbarium and types The original collections (over 30.000) reached Paris in the course of 1774. A.-L. de Jussieu was given the custody of all Commerson collections on 11 January 1776 (of the manuscripts on 5 February 1784). These collections were inserted in the Herbier général at [[Collection P|P]] after the reorganisation of 1793. Considerable numbers of duplicates went to A.-L. de Jussieu ([[Collection P|P]]), Lamarck ([[Collection P|P]]), Lemonnier ([[Collection G|G]]), L'Héritier de Brutelle ([[Collection G|G]]), J. E. Smith ([[Collection LINN|LINN]]), C. P. Thunberg ([[Collection UPS|UPS]]); further sets of duplicates were sent to (or reached) [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection MPU|MPU]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection S|S]] and [[Collection W|W]]. – Manuscripts also at [[Collection P|P]]. *Ref*.: IH 1 (ed. 6): 357, 2: 135. - Candolle, Phytographie 404. 1880. - Stafleu, Introduction to Jussieu's Genera plantarum, in Jussieu, Genera plantarum, facsimile edition, Weinheim 1964. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 371; Bossert p. 81; CSP 2: 29; DBF 9: 390-391; Lasègue 55-56, 565; Plesch p. 235; PR p. 67; Zander ed. 10, p. 646. - Anon., Comm. Rebus Sci. Nat. Med. Gestis 20(1): 151. 1774. - Delalande, Obs. Phys. Hist. nat. 5(1): 89-120. 1775, 8: 357-363. 1776. - Giseke, Praelectiones xxix-xxxvi. 1792. - Amanton, Mém. Acad. Sci. Dijon 1832(2): 79-93. \[see p. 87-89\]. - Cap, Philibert Commerson, naturaliste voyageur, Paris 1861, 40 p. (rev. Edinb. Review 177(2) Apr. 1893). - Baker, Fl. Mauritius 7\*. 1877. - Montessus, Martyrologe et biographie de Commerson. Châlon-sur-Saône 1889, vii, 224 p. (Bull. Soc. Sci. nat. Saône-et-Loire 3: 78-298. 1889) (rev. Edinb. Rev. 177(2). Apr. 1893). - Oliver, Gard. Chron. ser. 3. 12: 89-90, 125-126, 207-208. 1892. - Jacob de Cordemoy, Flore de l'ile de la Réunion xix. 1895. - Moewes, Naturwiss. Wochenschr. ser. 2. 2(29): 340-342, 349-355, 389, 400-403. 1902. - Urban, Symb. ant. 3: 32-33. 1902. - Urban, Fl. bras. 1(1): 13-14. 1906. - Oliver, The life of Philibert Commerson, London 1909, xvii, 262 p. (portr.). - Magnin, Ann. Soc. bot. Lyon 31: 35-36. 1906, 35: 21. 1910 (q.v. for many biogr. refs.) (bibl.). - Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 135. 1936. - Castellanos, Rev. Colejio libre Estud. super. 136: 412-422. 1943. - Steenis-Kruseman, Fl. males. 1(1): 113-114. 1950. - Angely, Flacourtiaceae I. 1959. - Chaumartin, Philibert Commerson, Vienne 1967, 31 p. - Looser, Rev. Univ. Santiago 52(30): 177-182. 1967. - Laissus, DSB 3: 365-366 (bibl.) 1971. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 369-370. 1971. - Bernardi, Musées de Genève 140: 10-21. 1973 (portr.). - Stafleu, *in* Daniels et Stafleu, Taxon 23: 10. 1974 (portr.). #### Itinerary Commerson accompanied L. A. de Bougainville on part of his voyage around the world (1766-1769): La Plata, Magelhaes, Tahiti, Melanesia, Moluccas, Java, Mauritius, stayed behind on Mauritius 1768 (collaborated with the intendant Poivre), visited Madagascar (1770) and Réunion (1771). Sent many living plants to the Paris garden. #### Eponymy *Commersona* Sonnerat (1776); *Commersonia* J. R. Forster & J. G. A. Forster (1776). #### Handwriting see Montessus, Martyrologe et biographie de Commerson. 1889 (3 facs. repr. of letters). #### Postage stamps Mauritius 2-50 Rs. (1974)