> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 426](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266103) of TL-2 Suppl. IV > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61971995) QID Q61971995 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Coutance, Amédée Guillaume Auguste (1824-1895), French pharmacist and botanist, born 8 Aug 1824 at Quimper (Finistère), studied literature and sciences at St. Brieuc, at pharmacy school at Brest 1844, in 1846 in the "Corps de l'École de Santé" of the navy, sent to Guyana until 1853, to Martinique in 1859, collected plants there around 1868, professor in natural history at the medical school of the navy at Brest, died 17 Feb 1895 at Brest (Finistère). **Abbreviated name**: *Coutance* #### Herbarium and types [[Collection P|P]] (Haiti and Martinique). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 388; BM 1: 395; CSP 9: 591, 12: 175; GR p. 312-313; I H2: 141; Jackson p. 92, 142, 208, 209; Kew 1:633; LS6116; Pleschp. 184; Tucker 1: 176. #### Biofile - Urban, I., Symb. ant. 3(1): 33. 1902. #### Composite works Husnot, T. and A. Coutance, *Énumération des Glumacées récoltées aux* *Antilles Françaises*, see TL-2/2: 3149. ### Publications ##### n.27.934. Histoire du chêne **Title** *Histoire du chêne* dans l'antiquité & dans la nature. Ses applications à l'lndustrie, aux Constructions navales aux Sciences et aux Arts, etc.... Paris (Librairie J.-B. Bailiière et Fils...) 1873. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Hist, chêne*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1873 (Bot. Zeit. 31(33): 527. 15 Aug 1873), p. \[i-iii\], \[1-11\], 12-558, tables A-F (folding). *Copy*: U. *Ref*.: Anon, Bull. Soc. bot. France 21(Bibl.): 9. Jul 1874 (rev.).