> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 934](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33121065) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/3099-1) LSID 3099-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3262134) QID Q3262134 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Gérard, Louis (1733-1819), French physician and botanist at Cotignac in the French Provence. **Abbreviated name**: *Gérard* \[standard form in IPNI: *Gérard*\] #### Herbarium and types Acquired by the Départment du Var in 1833 and deposited in the Draguignan museum; now at the Toulon museum ([[Collection TLON|TLON]]). The herbarium specimens are mostly not accompanied by data on localities. – Gérard corresponded with Linnaeus and Bernard de Jussieu. He sent plants to them which are now in [[Collection LINN|LINN]] and [[Collection P|P]]-JU. *Ref*.: IH 2: 221. - Cavillier, Boissiera 5: 47. 1941. - Burtez, Catalogue des plantes de l'herbier L. Gerard. Draguignan 1899, 436 p. (fide Cavillier 1941). #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(1): 127; Barnhart 2: 40; BM 2: 660-661, 6: 364; Bossert p. 142; GR p. 323; PR 3280-3281; SO ind. authors p. 23; Dryander, Cat. Banks 5: 249 \[index\]. 1800. - Gérard, Magas. Enc. 1807(5): 354-366 (letter Linnaeus to Gérard). - Teissier, L. G., Étude biographique. Toulon 1859. Oct (100 p., n.v.) (*in* Bull. Soc. Sci. belles-lettres et arts Dép. Var. 1860: 237-328, n.v.) - Burnat, Bull. Soc. bot. France 30: cxviii. 1883. - Clos, Mém. Acad. Sci. Toulouse ser. 8. 10: 342-370. 1888. - Cavillier, Boissiera 5: 46. 1941. - Stafleu, Introduction to Jussieu's Genera plantarum xxxi, xxxix, 1964. - Astre, Bull. Soc. Hist. nat. Toulouse 101: 176. 1966. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 373 \[ind.\]. 1971. #### Eponymy *Gerardia* Linnaeus (1753) is dedicated to John Gerard (1545-1612), q.v. #### Handwriting Candollea 29: 515-516. 1974. ### Publications ##### n.1995. Flora gallo-provincialis **Title** *Flora gallo-provincialis*, cum iconibus aeneis. Paris (C. J. B. Bauche) 1761. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. gallo-prov.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Mar-Oct 1761, p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-xxxciii, map, \[1\]-585, *pl. 1-19. Copies*: MO, U. – Rothmaler states that the book was published Feb-Mar 1761. This is probably based on the date of the "Approbatio" on p. \[586\]: "Calendas Febr. Ann. 1761." This statement marks the printing of the last sheet; it is reasonable to assume that publication took place shortly afterwards. The Amsterdam ed. of the J. Sçavans reviewed it in its issue for Oct 1761. The dedication is dated 20 Oct 1760. The Nederl. Letter-Courant reviewed it only on 22 Jun 1762, the GGA on 9 Jun 1763. The book is important because it contains an early attempt at a natural system, prior to Adanson, ignored by A.-L. de Jussieu, influenced to some extent by Linnaeus's *Ordines naturales*, but mainly by Bernard de Jussieu. For a commentary see Clos (1888). The 19 plates are copper-engravings by Martinet. *Ref*.: BM 2: 660; DA 1967; PLS 9848; PR 3280; RS p. 84; SA 1: 145, 2: 562; SO 641a; IDC 5406. - Clos, Mém. Acad. Sci. Toulouse sér. 8. 10: 342-370. 1888. - Wilmott, Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1935: 90. - Rothmaler, Repert. Sp. nov. 53: 34. 1944. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 268-272, 373. 1971.