> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 385](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259889) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123682346) QID Q123682346 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author François, Edmond (fl. 1925-1941), French agronomist and administrator, agricultural engineer 1923, Inspector general of Agriculture, Tananarive (Antananarivo), Madagascar 1936, dir., trial garden, Nanisana nr. Tananarive, gov., Inst. de Recherche Scientifique Malgache, founder and first Dir., Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tananarive 1925-1935, Légion d'honneur. **Abbreviated name**: *Ed. François* #### Herbarium and types [[Collection P|P]]. #### Bibliography and biography Sotheby 1: 222. #### Biofile - Dorr, L.J., 1997. Pl. collectors Madagascar Comoro Isls.: 163. - Grandidier, G., 1935. Bibl. de Madagascar, 1904-1933: 938-940; Id. 1957. 1515-1518. (bibl.) - Hillerman, F.E. & A.W. Holst, 1986. Introd. to cult. angraecoid orchids Madagascar: 11. - Humbert, H., 1962. *In*, A. Fernandes, Compt. Rend. Réun. Plén. Assoc. pour Étude Taxon. Fl. Afrique Trop. 4: 141. - Lorence, D.H. & R.E. Vaughan, 1992. Annotated bibl. Mascarene pl. life: 72. (bibl.) - Mollet, S. & L. Allorge, 2000. Histoire du Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza, Grenoble (Éditions Alzieu): 16-27. ### Publications ##### n.35.394. Plantes **Title** *Plantes* de *Madagascar*... Tananarive (Pitot de la Beaujardière) 1937. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1937, cover t.p., p. \[1\]-74, \[75, table of contents\], *pl. 1-23* (uncol. phot., except *pl. 1, 12, 13, 22* col. lith. with letterpress). *Copies*: Dorr, HH (n.v.), NY (n.v.), NYPL (n.v.), SOAS (n.v.), US, USDA. – Issued as Mém. Acad. Malgache 24. 1937.