> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 925](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33121056) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3057-1) LSID 3057-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1096785) QID Q1096785 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Gay, Claude (1800-1873), French botanist and traveller. **Abbreviated name**: *Gay* \[standard form in IPNI: *Gay*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PC|PC]]. – Gay made two voyages to South America, in 1828-1832 and in 1834-1842. Duplicates at [[Collection B|B]], [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection F|F]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection G|G]]-DC, [[Collection GH|GH]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LE|LE]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection MPU|MPU]], [[Collection NY|NY]], [[Collection SGE|SGE]], [[Collection US|US]], [[Collection W|W]]. *Ref*.: IH 1 (ed. 6): 359, 2: 219; Lasègue 569 \[ind.\] - Urban, Fl. bras. 1(1): 26-27. 1906. - Urban, Gesch. Berlin-Dahlem 299, 348. 1916. - Hedge and Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh 83. 1970. - Sayre, Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 19(3): 326-327. 1975. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 34; BM 2: 646; Bossert p. 141, 6: 359; CSP 2: 797, 7: 748; GR p. 323; Lasègue 569 \[index\]; LS 9762; PR 3247; Zander ed. 10, p. 603. - Denis, Nouv. Biogr. gen. 19: 753-756. 1857. - Cosson, Bull. Soc. bot. France 6: 542-577. 1859 (on Desvaux and Gay). - Anon., J. Bot. 12: 192. 1874. - Barros Arana, Don Claudio Gay, su vida y sus obras, Santiago 1876, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-235. *Copy*: At Yale Univ. library. - Raynaud, Bull. Soc. étud. sci. archéol. Ville Draguignan...: 1-40. 1877. - Porter, Rev. chilena 6: 110-132. 1902 (portr.; p. 127-132 on botanical part of *Historia*). - Urban, Fl. bras. 1: 26-27. 1906 (itin. amer.) - Pizarra, Bol. Mus. nac. Chile Hist. nat. 21: 29-44. 1944 (itin., maps). - Yanez, Rev. chilena Hist. nat. 48: 8-20. 1944 (portr.) - Villalobos, Bol. Univ. Chile 9(74): 52-59, 9(75): 46-51. 1967. #### Commemorative volume Rev. chilena Hist. nat. 48: 1-359. 1944. #### Eponymy *Gayophytum* A. H. L. Jussieu (1832). – *Note*: *Gaya* Gaudin (1826), *Gaya *Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth (1812), and *Gaya* K. P. J. Sprengel (1824) are dedicated to Jacques Étienne Gay (1786-1864), q.v. #### Handwriting Rev. chilena Hist. nat. 48: 15. 1944. ### Publications ##### n.1975. Historia física y política de Chile **Title** *Historia física y política de Chile* según documentos adquiridos en esta república durante doce años de residencia en ella y publicada bajo los auspicios del supremo gobierno... *Botánica* \[*Flora chilena*\]. Paris (E. Thunot y Ca. atlas; author, text), Santiago (Museo historia natural) 1845-1852\[-1854\], 8 vols. Oct. \[text\], Fol. \[atlas\]. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. chil.* **Notes** |vol. |part |pages |dates| |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 |1 |\[i-iii\], \[1\]-104 |ante Dec 1845| | |2 |105-248 |early 1846| | |3 |249-376 |ante Oct 1846| | |4 |377-496 |ante Oct 1846| |2 |1 |\[1\]-144 |ante Mai 1847| | |2 |145-272 |ante Mai 1847| | |3 |273-416 |Mai-Jun 1847| | |4 |417-534 |Mai-Jun 1847| |3 |1 |\[1\]-128 |ante Feb 1848| | |2 |129-240 |ante Jun 1848| | |3 |241-384 |late(?) 1848| | |4 |385-484 |late 1848 v. early 1849| |4 |1 |\[1\]-128 |ante Aug 1849| | |2 |129-256 |ante Aug 1849| | |3 |257-384 |ante Aug 1849(?)| | |4 |385-516 |1849(?), cover 1854| |5 |1 |\[1\]-128 |late 1849| | |2 |129-256 |late 1849| | |3 |257-384 |1851 v. 1852| | |4 |385-479 |med. 1852, reissued 1876| |6 | |\[1\]-551 |prob. after med. 1854| |7 |1 |\[1\]-... |1850| | |2 |...-256 |1850| | |3 |257-384 |1853| | |4 |385-515 |ante 22 Mai 1854| |8 |1 |\[1\]-256 |1852| | |2 |257-448 |prob. early Mai 1854| *Reissues* (covers different, rest same): 1-4: 1854; 1-8: 1876. *Atlas* de la historia física y política de Chile. Paris (E. Thunot y Ca.) 1854. Fol., p. \[i\], *pl. 1-11, 11* \[= *12*\], *13-32, 32bis, 32*\[*ter*\], *33-52, 52bis, 53-62, 64*\[= *63*\], *64-69, 69, 69bis, 70-83*, cript. *1-16*, mapa *1-11*, folded map. The plates are mainly by Alfred Riocreux and Gay. – The second atlas (tomo segundo) contains no botany. For a review of Émile Desvaux' Grasses and Cyperaceae, in vol. 6 '1853' see Cosson (1859). The cryptogams (vol. 7, 8) are by Montagne, who published the diagnoses of new algae in Ann Sci. nat. Bot. sér. 3. 18: 302-319. 1852. These algae appear in Gay's work on p. 228-393 of vol. 8, publ. 1852 (228-256) and 1854. *Copies*: G, HU (2), MO, NY, US, USDA. *Collaborators*: BARNÉOUD, F. M.: Tropeol., Oxal., Myrt., Geran., Vivian., Crucif., Portul.; NAUDIN, c.: Elatinaceae; CLOS, D.: Rhamn., Legum., Umb., Loranth., Rubiac., Valer., Borag., Lab., Scroph.; REMY, J.: Saxif., Calyc., Comp., Solan., Amar., Phytol., Polygon.;. DECAISNE, J.: Plantaginaceae; RICHARD, A.: Orchidaceae; DESVAUX, E.: Cyperaceae, Gramineae; MONTAGNE, C.: Cellular cryptogams. *Ref*.: BL 1: 245; BM 2: 646; GF p. 57; IF p. 699; Jackson p. 374, 375; NI 695; PR 3247; SK p. clxxxiv; IDC 5927. - Cosson, Bull. Soc. bot. France 6: 569-576. 1859. - Johnston, Darwiniana 5: 154-165. 1941. - Stuardo-Oritz, Publ. Cent. Estud. ent. Univ. Chile 3: 295-359. 1960 (index).