> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 104](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258582) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/29243-1) LSID 29243-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36612925) QID Q36612925 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Gain, Louis (1883-1963), French naturalist (ornithologist and algologist) and meteorologist, naturalist aboard the *Pourquoi Pas?* on Jean-Baptiste Auguste Étienne Charcot's 2nd Exped. to the Antarctic 1908-1910, also sailed (1911-1912) on the *Hirondelle II*, which had been built for oceanographic research by Prince Albert I (1848-1922) of Monaco, Dr. ès-sciences 1912 Paris, "préparateur" to the Prof. of Comparative Anatomy, Muséum natl. d'Histoire naturelle, Paris 1913, after W.W.-I employed as a meteorologist becoming asst.-dir., national office of meteorology, retired 1952. **Abbreviated name**: *Gain* \[standard form in IPNI: *Gain*\] #### Herbarium and types Antarctic: [[Collection PC|PC]]. #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 215; Barnhart 2: 23; BM 6: 354; IH 2: 214; Kew 2: 235. #### Biofile - \[Albert Ier de Monaco\], 1934. Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier, prince souverain de Monaco... vol. 89: 458-459, *pl. 4*, figs. 20, 22. (portrs.) - Charcot, J., 1911. The voyage of the 'Why not?' in the Antarctic... \[English version\], New York, London (Hodder and Stoughton): 311 (index). (portrs., facing p. 24 & 200) - Charpin, A. & J. Timbal, 2007. Acta Bot. Gallica 154: 450. - Dörfler, I., 1909. Botaniker-Adressbuch, ed. 3: 108. - Lavaud, S., 1955. Cat. thèses de Doctorat ès Sciences nat. soutenues à Paris de 1891 à 1954: 53. - Le Conniat, A., 1997. Au vent de la destinée: l'ultime expédition polaire du *Pourquoi-pas?*, Saint-Malo (Editions Marc-Aurèle): 161 p. (n.v.) - Woelkerling, W.J. & D. Lamy, 1998. Non-geniculate coraline red algae...: 744 (index). - Wynne, O.E., 1969. Biogr. key-names birds of the world: 74. (as "Dr. K. Louis") #### Eponymy Gain Glacier, Antarctica. ### Publications ##### n.35.994. Flore Algologique **Title** La *Flore Algologique* des *régions antarctiques* et sub-antarctiques... Paris (Masson et Cie) 1912. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. Algol. rég. antarct.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1912 (date handwritten on t.p.), p. \[i, identif.\], \[ii, frontisp.\], map, \[iii, t.p.\], \[iv, list of collaborators\], 1-218, *pl. 1-2* (col. heliogr.), *3-4* (lith.), *5-8* (multiple phot.). – *Copies*: FH (n.v.), K (n.v.), LC (n.v.), MO (n.v.), NY (n.v.), US-Dawson. *Microfilm*: (1) Ann Arbor, Michigan (Univ. Microfilms International), 1966, 1 reel (35 mm). *Copy*: LC (n.v.). (2) Cambridge, Mass. (Harvard College Library Imaging Services), 2003, 1 reel (35 mm). *Copy*: HH (n.v.). *Note*: (1) The introd. states that, to assure priority of new species, Gain published five preliminary notes, three in 1911 and two in 1912, all cited in the bibl. (p. 200). (2) This was also Gain's doctoral thesis. ##### n.35.995. Algues **Title** *Algues* provenant des *campagnes* de l'*Hirondelle II* (1911-1912)... Monaco (Impr. de Monaco) 1914. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 2 Jan 1914 (cover-t.p. & p. \[1\]), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-23. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), US. – Issued as Bull. Inst. Océanogr. Monaco, no. 279.