> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 419](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189890) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8000-1) LSID 8000-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3271281) QID Q3271281 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Provancher, Léon (1820-1892), Canadian clergyman, botanist, entomologist and conchologist; ord. Québec 1844; minister at various Québec parishes 1844-1854, at St.-Joachim 1854-1862; from 1862-1871 at Portneuf; in retirement at Cap-Rouge nr. Québec from 1871; founder of le Naturaliste canadien. **Abbreviated name**: *Prov.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Prov.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection QPH|QPH]]; further material at [[Collection QUE|QUE]]. – Some archival material at SIA. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 113; BL 2: 133, 144, 314; BM 4: 1619; CSP 12: 591, 17: 1033-1034 (further biogr. refs.); IH 1 (ed. 6): 363, (ed. 7): 232, 340, 2: (in press); Jackson p. 366; Kew 4: 372; Morren ed. 2, p. 35, ed. 10, p. 134; PH 211, 567; PR 7355; Rehder 5: 692; Tucker 1: 571. #### Biofile - Anon., Appleton's Cycl. Amer. biogr. 5: 128. 1888 (b. 10 Mar 1820); Natural. canad. 5: 134. 1873; Nat. Nov. 14: 232. 1892; Ottawa Natural. 6: 44. 1892 (obit.). - Barron, J.R., Natural. canad. 102: 387-591. 1975 (P's colls. of insects; types of Ichneumonidae). - Béique, R., Natural. canad. 95(3): 609-626. 1968 (on P's entomological work). - Chapais, J.C., Natural. canad. 50: 193-195. 1924 (on P. as an educator). - Cinq-Mars, L., Provancheria 1: 5-16. 1967 (biogr., portr.); Natural. canad. 95(1): 7-8. 1968 (hommage, botanical work). - Essig, E.O., Hist. entom. 734-735. 1931 (portr.). - Gray, A., Amer. J. Sci. ser. 2. 35: 445. 1863. - Holland, G.P., L'abbé Provancher 1820-1892, *in* Les pionniers de la science canadienne, Société royale de Canada, Univ. Toronto Press. 1966 (n.v.). - Huard, V.A., Natural. canad. 21(1): 17-21. 1894 (last publ. Provancher); \[biography of P., in instalments:\] 21: 37-41, 53-56, 85-88, 101-104, 134-137, 149-152, 182-185. 1894; 22: 18-22, 53-57, 117-120, 133-136, 181-185. 1895.; 23: 49-53, 81-84, 113-117, 145-148, 177-180. 1896; 24: 178-182. 1897; 25: 34-37, 52-56, 82-86, 115-118, 133-136, 168-172, 183-187. 1898; 26: 17-21, 41-44, 81-85, 138-142, 150-152, 162-165, 178-182. 1899; La vie et l'oeuvre de l'abbé Provancher, Québec 1926 (biogr, portr., b. 10 Mar 1820, d. 23 Mar 1892), originally published as above in Le Naturaliste canadien, 512 p. - Kucyniak, J., Bryologist 49: 128. 1946 (mosses Fl. canad.). - Maheux, G., Natural. canad. 95(1): 2-6. 1968 (notes on P. on the occasion of the centenary of the journal). - Mallis, A., Amer. entomologists 106-107. 1971 (portr.). - Osborn, H., Fragm. entom. hist. *pl. 9.* 1937 (portr.). - Penhallow, D.P., Proc. Trans. R. Soc. Canada ser. 2. 3: 12, 51. 1897. - Provancher, L., Natural. canad. 5: 134-135. 1873 (autobiogr.). - Robitaille, A., Natural. canad. 57: 254. 1930 (herb. QPH). - Rousseau, J., Contr. Inst. bot. Montréal 44: 39-41. 1922 (A. Gray and the publ. of the *Fl. canad.*). - Rousseau, J. & R. Boivin, Natural. canad. 95(6): 1499-1530. 1968 (the contribution to science of the *Fl. canad.*). - Rumilly, R., Le frère Marie-Victorin et son temps 456 \[index\]. 1949. #### Composite works Editor, *Le Naturaliste canadien* vols. 1-20, 1869-1891. #### Eponymy (genus): *Provencheria* \[sic\] B. Boivin (1966), see ING 3: 1423 (orthographic error, later corrected by author); (journal): *Provancheria*, Mémoires de l'Herbier Louis-Marie. Faculté d'Agriculture de l'Université Laval. Quebec. Vol. 1-x. 1967-x. – Société Provancher, a society founded in Quebec in 1918 to promote the education and popularization of the natural sciences. Rue Provancher in Cap Rouge, near Quebec. #### Handwriting Natural. canad. 102: 404-405. 1975. ### Publications ##### n.8371. Flore canadienne **Title** *Flore canadienne* ou description de toutes les plantes des forêts, champs, jardins et eaux du Canada donnant le nom botanique de chacune, ses noms vulgaires français et anglais, indiquant son parcours géographique, les propriétés qui la distinguent, le mode de culture qui lui convient, etc. Accompagnée d'un vocabulaire des termes techniques et de clefs analytiques permettant de rapporter promptement chaque plante à la famille, au genre et à l'espèce qui la déterminent. Ornée de plus de quatre cents gravures sur bois... Québec (Joseph Darveau,...) 1862 \[1863\], 2 vols. Oct. (in fours). **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. canad.* **Notes** *1*: Jan 1863 (t.p. 1862 but official registration (p. ii) Jan 1883; Asa Gray acknowledged receipt of a copy on 13 Feb 1883), p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-xxix, \[1\]-474. *2*: 1863 (t.p. 1862, but see vol. 1), p. \[475\]-842, \[1, err.\]. *Copies*: MO, NY, US, USDA.