> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 477](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068719) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/4596-1) LSID 4596-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223963) QID Q223963 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de (1748-1836), French botanist at the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle; most forceful early promoter of the "natural system." **Abbreviated name**: *Juss.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Juss.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection P|P]]-JU. – For a description of the herbarium (microfiche IDC 6202) and a general commentary on Jussieu's earlier work see Stafleu (1964), for a general commentary on "les cinq Jussieu" see Lacroix (1941). See Sotheby for a mss. catalogue of 1781. Much manuscript material is at [[Collection P|P]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(2): 283; Ainsworth p. 343; Barnhart 2: 264; BM 2: 952; Bossert p. 202; Bret. p. 124; CSP 3: 596-598; Dawson p. 481-483, 940 \[index\]; Dryander 3: 33, 47, 216, 5: 62; DSB 7: 198-199; Frank 3 (Ann.): 49; GR p. 330; Henrey 2: 202, 313, 724; Hortus 3: 1197 ("Juss."); HU 703; IF p. 708; IH 2: 335; Jackson p. 18, 112; Kew 3: 204-205; Krempelh. 1: 5; Langman p. 402-403; Lasègue p. 22-26, 572 \[index\]; Moebius p. 48, 452; MW p. 220; Plesch p. 285-286; PR 4548-4551 (ed. 1: 5028-5068); Rehder 5: 442; RS p. 90; SK p. 269; SO add. 829b; Sotheby 411; TL-2/see vol. 1, index; Tucker 1: 379-380; Zander ed. 10, p. 676. - Anon., J. Bot. 74: 303-304. 1936. - Brongniart, Ann. Sci. nat. Bot. ser. 2. 7: 5-24. 1837. - Candolle, A. P. de, Mém. souvenirs 120, 146, 148, 185. 1862. - Carr, D. C, Linnaeus and Jussieu; or, the rise and progress of systematic botany. London 1844, 112 p. (SO 2705). - Cavillier, Boissiera 5: 57. 1941. - Chatin, Bull. Soc. bot. France 8: 366-367. 1861 (letter by J. to Le Monnier). - Constant, Bull. Soc. bot. France 17: lxvii. 1870 (letter A. L. J.). - Cuvier, G., Diet. Sci. nat. 61: 168-170. 1845 (also portr. in separate vol.). - Dawson, W. R., Smith papers 60. 1934 (letters to J. E. Smith). - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 6. 1969. - Flourens, P., Éloges hist. 168-172. 1857; Edinburgh new philos. J. 27: 29-31. 1839 (portr.). - Guillaumin, A., Les fleurs des Jardins xxviii. 1929. - Hooker, W. J., J. Bot. 3: 47-56, 57-77. 1840 (portr.). - Jaubert, H. F., Bull. Soc. bot. France 17: xxviii-xxix. 1870 (letter A. L. J.). - Jussieu, A. L. de, Notice historique sur le Muséum d'histoire naturelle, 6 parts, Ann. Mus. Hist. nat., Paris 1: 1-14. 1802, 2: 1-16. 1803, 3: 1-17. 1804, 4: 1-19. 1804, 6: 1-20. 1805, 11: 1-41. 1808. - Lacroix, Mem. Acad. Sci. Inst. France ser. 2. 63: 34-47. 1941. - Laissus, C. R., Congr. natl. Soc. sav. Rennes 1966, sci. 1: 137-152. 1967. - Leandri, J., Adansonia ser. 2. 7(4): 443-450. 1967. - Magnin, A., Bull. Soc. bot. Lyon 35: 18, 33. 1910. - Martins, Le Jardin des plantes de Montpellier 30, 32, 33, 38, 51. 1854. - Merrill, E. D., Contr. U.S. natl. Herb. 30(1): 170. 1947. - Milner, J. D., Cat. portr. Kew 67-68. 1906. - Nicolas, J. P., *in* G. H. M. Lawrence, ed., Adanson 1: 383 \[index\]. 1963. - O., Dict. Sci. Méd. 5: 388-390. 1822. - Rodgers, A. D., John Torrey 339. 1942. - Smit, P., Hist. life sci. 967. 1974. - Stafleu, F. A., *in* G. H. M. Lawrence, ed., Adanson 1: 383 \[index\]. 1963; Introduction to Jussieu's Genera plantarum. Weinheim 1964 (also in facs. ed. Genera plantarum): Adanson, Labillardière, de Candolle 102 \[index\]. 1967; Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 376 \[index\]. 1971; *in* Daniels & Stafleu, Taxon 21: 478. 1972; *in* Gillispie, DSB 7: 198-199. 1973 (bibl). - Steele, A. R., Flowers for the King 362 \[index\]. 1964. - Virey, Rapport fait au nom de la Commission chargée d'examiner le projet de loi tendant à accorder une pension de 6.000 fr. proposée en faveur de la veuve de M. Antoine-Laurent Jussieu. Chambre des Députés, session 1837, no. 169, 9 p. (proposal to give a state pension to J's widow, Thérèse-Adrienne Boisneuf). - Wittrock, V. B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 113-114. 1903, 3(3): xxxviii, 104, *pl. 35.* 1905 (portr.). #### Composite works See Fuhlrott, Jussieu's und de Candolle's natürliche Pflanzen-Systeme... Bonn 1829, TL/2, 1917. #### Note A. L. de Jussieu published a long series of fundamental papers on natural relationship and the taxonomy of many taxa in the Annales and Mémoires du Museum d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, between 1802-1820. Reprints of the earlier papers are usually simple reprints with original pagination or tearsheets from the regular journal issues. For lists of these reprints see e.g. CSP and PR. #### Handwriting See two facsimiles of letters from 1789 and 1833 in Ann. Sci. nat. Bot. ser. 2. 7: 1-20. 1837; also: Candollea 31: 133-134. 1976. ### Publications ##### n.3468. Genera plantarum **Title** Antonii Laurentii de Jussieu... *Genera plantarum* secundum ordines naturales disposita, juxta methoclum in horto regio parisiensi exaratum, anno m.d.cc.lxxiv. Parisiis (apud Viduam Herissant, typographum,... et Theophilum Barrois,...) 1789, Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Gen. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 4 Aug 1789 (see Stafleu 1964), p. \[(1)\]-(24), \[i\]-lxxii, \[1\]-498, \[1, err.\]. *Copies*: FAS, U, US(2), USDA. *Zürich ed*.: "... recudi curavit notisque auxit Paulus Usteri,..." Turici Helvetorum \[Zürich\] (sumtibus Ziegleri & filiorum) 1791. Oct., p. \[i\]-lxxix, \[i\]-xxiv, \[1\]-526. *Copies*: BR, FAS. *Facsimile ed*. (of 1789 orig.): Weinheim (J. Cramer) 1964, with an introduction by Frans A. Stafleu, Historiae naturalis classica vol. 35, p. \[i\]-xlviii, portr. A. L. J., followed by facsimile. *Copies*: FAS, P. Inscription in Alexander von Humboldt's copy (HL 5055): "Dieses Buch,..., hat Bonpland und mich in die Wälder des Orinoco, auf die Cordilleras nach Quito und Popayan und nach Mexico begleitet." ##### n.3469. Mémoire sur les caractères généraux de familles tirés des graines **Title** Premier \[–treizième\] *mémoire sur les caractères généraux de familles tirés des graines*, et confirmés ou rectifiés par les observations de Gaertner. *Ann*. \[*Mém*.\] *Mus. Hist. nat.* 5-20, Mém. 2-5. 1804-1830. Qu. **Notes** |Mémoire | |Ann./Mém. Mus |pages |dates| |--- |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 |Ann. |5 |216-228 |1804| |2 | |5 |246-265 |1804| |3 | |5 |417-429 |1804| |4 | |6 |307-324 |1805| |5 | |7 |373-392 |1806| |6 | |8 |170-186 |1806| |7 | |10 |307-332 |1807| |8 | |12 |285-303 |1808| |9 | |16 |169-180 |1810| |10 | |18 |472-487 |1811| |11 | |20 |459-468 |1813| |12 |Mém. |2 |436-443 |1815| |13 | |3 |436-448 |1817| |13\[bis\] | |5 |226-248 |1819| |Note | |5 |247-248 |1819| *Copies*: (reprints with unchanged pagination: G (journal), U. ##### n.3470. Principes de la méthode naturelle des végétaux **Title** *Principes de la méthode naturelle des végétaux*... (Article extrait du 30.e volume du Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles.) Paris (Chez F. G. Levrault,...), Strasbourg (id.). 1824. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Princ. méth. nat. vég.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai 1824, p. \[1\]-51. *Copies*: BR, L, M, NY, U. – Reprinted from Dict. sci. nat. 30, Mai 1824. ##### n.3471. Sur la famille des plantes Rubiacées **Title** *Sur la famille des plantes Rubiacées*... \[Paris 1820\]. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1820, p. \[1\]-43. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted from Mém. Mus. Hist. nat., Paris 6: 365-409. 1820. To be cited from journal. ##### n.3472. Introductio in historiam plantarum **Title** Antonii Laurentii de Jussieu. *Introductio in historiam plantarum*. (Introductionis olim generibus plantarum praemissae editio altera posthuma, aucta et maximâ parte nova). \[Paris (Imprimé chez Paul Renouard,...) 1837\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Intr. hist. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1837, p. \[1\]-111. *Copies*: B, G, NY.