> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 520](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355607) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6512-1) LSID 6512-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q765542) QID Q765542 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Mirbel, Charles François Brisseau de (1776-1854), French botanist; in Paris 1798-1806 at the Muséum; from 1802-1806 head-gardener at Malmaison; in Holland with Louis Napoléon 1806-1810; from 1829 again attached to the Muséum (1829 professeur de culture); mainly plant anatomist and physiologist. **Abbreviated name**: *Mirb.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Mirb.*\] #### Herbarium and types Material from the Pyrenees in [[Collection P|P]]-JU, other material in [[Collection P|P]] and [[Collection PC|PC]]. – A set of 53 plates, illustrating Californian plants, based on plants wholly or in large part collected by Paulo Emilio Botta (1802-1870) is at [[Collection NY|NY]]. Barnhart (in mss notes accompanying this volume) refers to A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 195. 1870 who states that the drawings were made "by Decaisne and engraved for Mirbel who was to have published Botta's collections." The plates were engraved between 1834 and 1854. Barnhart does not exclude the possibility that Édouard Spach played a role in this unfinished project. #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(2): 205; Backer p. 374; Barnhart 2: 496; BM 3: 1321; Bossert p.268;CSP 4:405-407, 12: 511; Dawson p.614; DSB 9: 418-419; Frank 3(Anh.): 66; GR p. 340-341; Herder p. 466 \[index\]; Hortus 3: 1200 ("Mirb."); IF p. 720-721; IH 2: 543; Jackson p. 67, 75, 113, 115, 222, 485; Kew 4: 13; Langman p. 512; Lasègue p. 524; Lenley p. 464; Moebius p. 165, 453 \[index\]; NI 1392, 1392n; Plesch p. 338; PR 6286-6292; Ratzeburg p. 370-371; Rehder 5: 577-578; SO 439e, 776, 777; TL-1/267, 315, 493, 940; TL-2/ 809, 1293, 1410, 1547, 1969, 2134, 2537, 4140; Tucker 1: 490-491; Zander ed. 10, p. 693, ed. 11, p. 790 (b. 28 Mar 1776). - Allan, M., The Hookers of Kew 68. 1867. - Anon., Bonplandia 2: 266. 1854 (Leopoldina cogn. Dodartius); Österr. bot. W. 4: 375. 1854 (d.); Proc. Linn. Soc. 2: 423-425. 1855; Bull. Soc. bot. France 1: 204. 1854; Proc. Linn. Soc. 2: 423-425. 1855; Bot. Zeit. 12: 744. 1854, 13: 342-344. 1855 (on funeral); Flora 37: 704. 1854. - Baines, J. E., Vict. Natural. 90: 229. 1973. - Bonnet, E., Bull. Soc. bot. France 60: xcviii. 1913. - Brongniart, Ad., Funérailles de M. de Mirbel, Institut imp. de France, Paris, 16 p.. - Candolle, A. P. de, Mém. souv. 91, 120, 198, 222. 1862. - Costantin, J., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. ser. 10. 16: xxiii-xxiv. 1934 (portr.). - Dawson, W. R., Smith papers 70. 1934. - Glotin, Jard. France 6: 10-11. 1971 (n.v.). - Guillaumin, A., Rev. sci. ill. 71(12), 1933 (portr.). - Harvey-Gibson, R. J., Outlines hist. bot. 77-79. 1914. - Huxley, L., Life letters J. D. Hooker 1: 180, 181. 1918. - Jessen, K. F. W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 376, 378, 404, 406-409, 438. 1884. - Lacroix, A., Fig. savants 4: 70. 1938. - MacPhail, I., Cat. Redout. 20, 52. 1963. - Martin, M., Ind. corr. Torrey p. 464. 1973. - Morton C. V., J. Washington Acad. Sci. 36: 116-169. 1946 (M's fern studies). - Payen, A., Éloge historique de M. de Mirbel. Paris 1858, 94 p., reprinted from Mém. Agr. Écon. rur. dom. 103: 146-234. 1859 (bibl., biogr., d. 12 Dec 1854). - Sachs, J. v., Hist. botanique 206, 264, 271, 282, 311, 322, 332, 452. 1892. - Seemann, B., Bonplandia 1(19): 187. 1853. - Taton, R., ed., Science 19th cent. 349, 375, 387. 1965. - Verdoorn, F., ed., Man. bryol. 41, 73, 82, 89, 131, 132, 207. 1932. - Wittrock, V. B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 115. 1903, 3(3): 108, *pl. 43.* 1905 (portr.). - Wulff, E. V., Intr. hist. pl. geogr. 23, 116. 1943. #### Composite works - (1) Duhamel du Monceau, H. L. *Traité arbr. arbust.*, ed. 2, in part author of vols. 1-4. See TL-2/1547. - (2) Cuvier, F., *Dict. Sci. nat.*, author of several botanical articles; see TL-2/1293. - (3) Lamarck, J. B. et B. Mirbel, *Hist. nat. vég.*, Paris an xi-1803, 15 vols., see TL-2/4140. – Italian translation (not mentioned under no. 4140): *Storia naturale dei vegetabili* classificata per famiglie, con la citazione delle classe e dello ordine di Linèe,... da G. B. Lamarck... e da B. Mirbel... recata in lingua italiana e corredata di note e aggiunte da D. A. Farini... Livorno (Fratelli Vignozzi e Nipote) 1841. *Copy*: FI (vols. 1(1-2), 2(1-3), 3(1-3), all 1841, with 84 col. pl. #### Eponymy *Mirbelia* J. E. Smith (1805); *Mirbellites* Unger (1845). ### Publications ##### n.6127. Histoire naturelle **Title** *Histoire naturelle*, générale et particulière, *des plantes*. Ouvrage faisant suite aux oeuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du cours complet d'histoire naturelle rédigé par C. S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Traité d'anatomie et de physiologie végétales, servant d'introduction à l'histoire des plantes... Paris (de l'imprimerie de F. Dufart) an x \[1802\]-1806, 18 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Hist. nat. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Part of the *Suites à Buffon*, accompanying the octavo edition of Buffon, *Histoire naturelle* ... rédigé par C. S. Sonnini, Paris 1799-1806; 64 vols. (excl. Suites). Mirbel was the author of vols. 1, 2, and 4-15; Nicolas Jolyclerc (x-1817) of vols. 3 and 16-18. *Copies*: MO, NY, USDA. – The MO copy has double sets of plates, one coloured, one uncoloured. The plates are by De Sève. *1*: 19 Jul 1802 (JT), p. \[1\]-378, *pl. 1-2*, chart. *2*: 19 Jul 1902 (JT), p. \[1\]-423, \[424. err.\], *pl. 3-16.* *3*: 1806 (t.p.), p. \[1\]-357, *pl. 143-150.* – "... et continué par N. Jolyclerc,..." Paris (id.) 1806. *4*: 28 Jan 1803, p. \[1\]-431. – title as in vol. 1, publ. "an xi.". *5*: 28 Jan 1803, p. \[1\]-429. – as vol. 4. *6*: 1 Oct 1803, p. \[1-2\], \[i\*, extra t.p.\], \[3\]-384. – as vol. 4. *7*: 1 Oct 1803, p. \[1\]-473, \[474, err.\], *pl. 16*\[*bis*\]-22. – as vol. 4. *8*: 1804, p. \[1\]-419, \[420, err.\], *pl. 22-33, 34* (as "*24*"). – Paris (id.) an xii. *9*: 1804, p. \[1\]-432, *pl. 35-40.* – as vol. 8. *10*: 1805, p. \[1\]-444, *pl. 41-53.* – Paris (id.) an xiii. *11*: 1805, p. \[1\]-417, \[148, err\], *pl. 54-67* (as "xxvii"). – as vol. 10. *12*: 1805, p. \[1\]-434, 1, err.\], *pl. 68-78.* – as vol. 10. *13*: 1805, p. \[1\]-418, \[1, err.\], *pl. 79-87.* – as vol. 10. *14*: 1805, p. \[1\]-427, \[428, err.\], *pl. 88-96.* – as vol. 10. *15*: 1805, p. \[1\]-430, *pl. 97-106.* – as vol. 10. *16*: 1806, p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-407, *pl. 107-120.* – as vol. 3. *17*: 1806, p. \[1\]-404, *pl. 112-128.* – as vol. 3. *18*: 1806, p. \[1\]-384, *pl. 129-142.* – as vol. 3. ##### n.6128. Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur le Marchantia polymorpha **Title** *Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur le Marchantia polymorpha*, pour servir à l'histoire du tissu cellulaire, de l'épiderme et des stomates... \[Paris (Firmin Didot frères...) 1835\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Rech. anat. Marchantia*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1835, p. \[1\]-100, *pl. 1-10* (col., by Mlle. Legendre). *Copies*: FI, MO, NY, U-V. – Reprinted from Mém. Acad. Sci. Inst. France 13: 337-436, *pl. 1-10.* 1835. Preliminary publications: Nouv. Mém. Mus. hist. nat., Paris, 1: 93-130. 1834, Ann. Sci. nat. 25: 73-87. 1832.