> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 162](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258640) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104247375) QID Q104247375 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Geay, \[Martin\] François (1859-1910), French pharmacist, botanist and natural history collector, born in the Cour d'Arcenay, Canton de Précy-sous-Thil (Côte d'Or), studied at the Lycée in Dijon, then at the Sorbonne and the School of Pharmacy in Paris, also studied natural history under Alphonse Milne-Edwards, pharmacist, Compagnie du Canal de Panama 1886-1887, briefly returned to Paris 1887, "voyager-naturalist" for the Muséum natl. d'Histoire naturelle, Paris in the Darien (now Panama) and Venezuela 1888-1895, returned to Paris 1895, to British Guiana and the contested French-Brazilian territory 1897-1899, to Madagascar several times from 1904-1907, died 15/16 Mai 1910 in Melbourne, Australia. **Abbreviated name**: *M.F. Geay* #### Herbarium and types [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection P|P]] (orig.), [[Collection TAN|TAN]]. – Some mss. material at [[Collection P|P]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 2: 35; CSP 15: 239; IH 2: 220, 228 (as "Goay"). #### Biofile - Anon., 1905. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 11: 131; 1906. Id. 12: 2, 233; 1910. Id. 16: 176. - Costantin, J.N. & D.G. Bois, 1907. Rev. Hort. 79: 489-494. - Costantin, J.N. & E.-I. Gallaud, 1905. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 11: 345-354; 1906. Id. 12: 415-421. - Dorr, L.J., 1997. Pl. coll. Madagascar Comoro Isls.: 172-173. (portr.) - Grandidier, G., 1935. Bibl. de Madagascar, 1904-1933: 956. - Griveaud, P., 1967. Cah. O.R.S.T.O.M., Sér. Biol. 4: 56. ("Geary") - Guillaumin, A., 1929. Fleurs de jardins 1: xli. - Hillerman, F.E. & A.W. Holst, 1996. Introd. cult. angraecoid orchids Madagascar: 10. (portr.) - Hoff, M. & G. Cremers, 1996. Index noms lieux récoltes botaniques Guyane Française: 145. - Humbert, H., 1962. *In*, A. Fernandes, Compt. Rend. Réun. Plén. Assoc. pour Étude Taxon. Fl. Afrique Trop. 4: 138. - Humbert, H. & J. Leandri, 1954. Bull. Trimestriel Acad. Malgache, Numéro Spécial du Cinquantenaire: 35. - Phelps, W.H., 1945. Bol. Soc. Venez. Ci. Nat. 61: 392. - Poisson, H., 1911. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 17: 86-90. \[reprint repaginated\] - Poisson, H., 1911. Bull. Sci. Trimestriel (Faculté des sciences, Paris) 1: 1-2. \[reprint\] - Viette, P., 1962 \[1963\]. Ann. Soc. Entomol. France 131: 13. - Viette, P., 1981. Madagascar sanctuaire de la nature: 103. #### Eponymy *Geaya* Costantin & J. Poiss. (1908). ### Publications ##### n.36.224. explorations **Title** Rapport d'*explorations* aux régions Nord-Est, Sud-Sud-Ouest, Sud, et Sud-Sud-Est de *Madagascar*, 1904-1907... Paris ("Chez L'Auteur") \[1908\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Expl. Madagascar*. **Notes** *Publ*.: \[1908\], p. \[1\]-109, \[110-111, contents\]. *Copies*: Bibliothèque Grandidier (Antananarivo), Bibl. nat. (n.v.). *Microfiche*: Paris (Bibl. nat.), 1993, 2 microfiches (105 ×148 mm). *Copy*: Bibl. nat. (n.v.). *Note*: A hand-written note on the cover of the volume examined indicates that only 100 copies were printed (see also Poisson (1911, p. 88, note (1)).