> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 704](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120835) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/10639-1) LSID 10639-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q537070) QID Q537070 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Du Petit-Thouars, Louis-Marie Aubert Aubert (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Du Petit-Thouars, Louis-Marie Aubert Aubert (1758-1831), French traveller and botanist. **Abbreviated name**: *Thouars* \[standard form in IPNI: *Thouars*\] #### Herbarium and types According to Alph. de Candolle, the Du Petit-Thouars herbarium is at [[Collection P|P]] and [[Collection PC|PC]]. i have not been able to find this confirmed by the files of the Laboratoire de Phanérogamie It is true, however, that the best set of his plants now known is the one at [[Collection P|P]] and [[Collection PC|PC]], but whether this contains also his types is difficult to decide. According to Desfontaines, Du Petit-Thouars presented the first part of his *Histoire des végétaux recueillis sur les isles de France*... to the Muséum together with a set of specimens on which the descriptions were based; he promised to do this for all fascicles. An important set is also at [[Collection B|B]] (Willd.); other material at [[Collection K|K]]. *Ref*.: IH 2: 172. - Desfontaines, Ann. Mus. Hist. nat. 4: 170. 1804. - Urban, Gesch. Berlin-Dahlem 382, 415. 1916. #### Bibliography and biography BM 1: 493-494; Bossert p. 109; CSP 1: 113-114; Langman p. 96; NI 562-564; PR 2521-2537. - Flourens, Éloge historique d'Aubert-Aubert du Petit-Thouars, Paris 1845, 31 p., Éloges historiques p. 283-323. 1857, Mém. Acad. Sci. 20. 1849. - Jacob de Cordemoy, Flore de l'Isle de la Réunion xxx. 1895. - Woodward, J. Bot. 38: 392-400. 1900. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 112. 1903, 3(3): 101. *pl. 38.* 1905 (portr.) - Lacroix, Figures de savants 4: 65. 1938. - Hocquette, Bull. Soc. bot. Nord France 19(1): 54-57. 1966. (letters Roemer to D.) #### Eponymy *Aubertia* Bory de Saint-Vincent (1804); *Thouarea* Kunth (1833, *orth. var.*); *Thouarsiora* Homolle ex Arènes (1960); *Thuarea* Persoon (1805). ### Publications ##### n.1579. Plantes des îles de l'Afrique australe **Title** *Plantes des îles de l'Afrique australe* formant des genres nouveaux, ou perfectionnant les anciens; accompagnées de dissertations sur différens points de botanique. Paris (Auteur, Madame Huzard, Levrault, Schoell et Compagnie, Madame Devaux, Giguet et Compagnie) \[1804\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *pl. îles Afriq. austral.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 16 Apr 1804 – consisted of one part containing plates nos. 1-8 and two plates of Cycas; dated Germinal XII (22 Mar-20 Apr 1804) \[cf. Flora 22(1) Beil. 1: 2\], presented to Académie des Sciences (Paris) on 16 Apr 1804 (JGLF Apr 1804). – No copy seen; however the HU copy of the *Histoire* (1804) (next item), has bound in a cover with the above title. ##### n.1580. Histoire des végétaux recueillis sur les îles de France, la Réunion **Title** *Histoire des végétaux recueillis sur les îles de France, la Réunion* (*Bourbon*) *et Madagascar. *Première partie. Contenant les descriptions et figures des plantes qui forment des genres nouveaux, ou qui perfectionnent les anciens; accompagnées de dissertations sur différents points de botanique. Paris (Madame Huzard). An XII (1804). Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Hist. vég. îles France*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1804, before 22 Sep ("an xii"), p. \[i\]-xvi, diss. Cycas: \[1\]-14, \[Descr. fig. pl.:\] 15-38, expl. gén. figures 39-40, *pl. 1* (Cycas), *2* (idem), *3* (Didymeles) – *10* (Calpidia). *Copies*: BM, G, HU, IDC 5213. – *Reissue* of the *Plantes des îles* as far as the plates are concerned. The plates are numbered *1-10*. *Ref*.: PR 2521; IDC 5213. - Manitz, Wiss. Z. Friedr. Schiller Univ. Jena, Mat. Nat. 24(4): 501-502. 1975. ##### n.1581. Histoire des végétaux recueillis dans les isles australes d'Afrique **Title** *Histoire des végétaux recueillis dans les isles australes d'Afrique* par Aubert Aubert Du Petit-Thouars. Première partie, contenant les descriptions et figures des plantes qui forment des genres nouveaux ou qui perfectionnent les anciens. Paris (Levrault, Schoell et Cie.) 1805. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Hist. vég. isles austral. Afriq.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Mai 1805, p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-64, plates numbered *3-10* \[new: 1-8\], *9-20* of which the series *3-10* is identical with *pl. 3-10* of the 1804 issue. The Cycas plates \[old 1-2\] are omitted. *Copies*: G, NY. – The copy at K has extra plates 25-30 (shaded), see below (1806). ##### n.1582. Histoire des végétaux recueillis dans les isles australes d'Afrique **Title** *Histoire des végétaux recueillis dans les isles australes d'Afrique*... première partie contenant les descriptions et figures des plantes qui forment des genres nouveaux ou qui perfectionnent les anciens. Paris (Tourneisen fils) 1806\[-1808\]. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Hist. vég. isles austral. Afriq.* **Notes** *Publ*.: in four fascicles: 1/2: Jul 1806, 3: Mar 1807, 4: Jan 1808 (p. 57-72, *pl. 19-24*). *Copies*: NY, IDC 6127. – *Contents*: \[i\]-xvi, t.p. and discours préliminaire of which \[v\]-xvi identical with \[v\]-xvi of 1804 ed. of *Histoire*; \[1\]-7, general text on Voyage; 8, explication générale des figures; 9, *Didymeles* technical description; 10 notes corresponding with p. 23 and 24 of 1804 ed.; 11-24, idem descr. + notes *plates 2-8, plate 8* = Calpidia, p. 24 is identical with p. 38 of 1804 ed., 25-36; Observations sur les genres précédents.; 37-72, Sarcolaena *pl. 9, 10* e.a. genera -*pl. 24.* *Fascicles* as follows (cf. Manitz 1975) 1: p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-16 (material agreeing with 1804 issue but without the Cycas treatment) *pl. 1-6* (orig. cover 1806, with Levrault-Schoell imprint). 2: p. 17-40, *pl. 7-12.* 3: p. 41-56, *pl. 13-18.* 4: p. 57-72, *pl. 19-24.* A further set of plates, numbered *25-30*, "shaded in lithograph" was evidently prepared. A set of these plates, with names but no analysis engraved, not accompanied by text is present at K. The names on these plates are not validly published (see Hiern, 1900). Miltitz (1829) mentions also an issue from 1807. This was probably not a separate issue but the above 1806-1808 paper. *Ref*.: BM 1: 493; NI 562-563; PR 2521-2522; RS p. 73; IDC 407. - Miltitz, Bibl. bot. 196. 1829. - Woodward, J. Bot. 38: 392-394. 1900. - Hiern, J. Bot. 38: 492. 1900. ##### n.1583. Genera nova madagascariensia **Title** *Genera nova madagascariensia*, secundum methodum Jussiaeanam disposita. \[Paris 1806\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Gen. nov. madagasc.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 17 Nov 1806, date of presentation of the printed pamphlet to the Académie des Sciences (Paris). Very few copies seem to have been distributed, but proof exists that at least one copy was deposited in a public library on 17 Nov 1806. p. \[1\]-29, \[30, ind.\]. *Copies*: G, P. – The original sheets were used for a later reissue in *Mélanges de botanique*, vol. 1, Paris 1811. The text is also included in Roemer, Collect. Bot. 1809. *Ref*.: PR 2525; RS p. 73; SK clxxix; IDC 5331. - Hiern, Bot. 38: 493-494. 1900. - Woodward, Bot. 38: 394. 1900. - Steenis-Kruseman, Fl. males. Bull. 19: 1144. 1964. ##### n.1584. Esquisse de la flore de l'Isle de Tristan d'Acugna **Title** *Esquisse de la flore de l'Isle de Tristan d'Acugna*. \[Paris 1808\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Esquisse fl. Tristan d'Acugna*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct 1808, p. \[1\]-46, \[2, table\], *pl. 1-13*, reissued in Mélanges de Botanique. *Copy*: NY (in Mél.) *Ref*.: IDC 5914; BM 1: 493. - Steenis-Kruseman, Fl. males. Bull. 19: 1144-1145. 1964. ##### n.1585. Mélanges de botanique et des voyages **Title** *Mélanges de botanique et des voyages*... Premier recueil. Paris (Arthus Bertrand) 1811. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Mélang. bot.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1811. Consists of 7 parts some of which are simply reissues of old stock of previous publications. Probably issued in fascicles; a first one 1 Jan 1811 (BF: Acad. 31 Dec 1810), another ("1 map, 18 plates") Jul 1811 (JGLE, BF 6 Aug 1811). The NY copy of the Mélanges consists of the following items: Preface material: p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-32 (Discours préliminaire) \[1\]. Diss. enchainement, p. \[1\]-48. \[2\]. Obs. gen. nova madagasc, p. \[1\]-4. \[3\]. Gen. nova madagasc, p. \[1\]-29, \[30, index\], 2 p. prodr. phytol. \[4\]. Obs. pl. Îles de France, p. \[1\]-80. \[5\]. Cours de Botanique, p. \[1\]-16. \[6\]. Descr. Isles Tristan d'Acugna, p. \[1\]-24. \[7\]. Esquisse flore Tristan d'Acugna, p. \[1\]-46, \[2, table\]. \[8\]. Treizième essai, *pl*. \[*1*\]-*48*. \[9\]. *plates 1-13* Flore Tristan, *2 pl*. Iles austr., 2 tables. The MO copy lacks 3, 6, 7, and 9 but has in addition: \[10\]. Discours enseignement bot., p. 1-48. \[11\]. Cours de phytologie, p. 1-113. \[12\]. Cours de phytologie, p. 1-16. The copy described by Poisson lacks 5, 10, 11, 12. *Ref*.: PR 2527. - Woodward, J. Bot. 38: 392-400. 1900. - Poisson, Bull. Acad. malgache ser. 2. 30: 109-110. 1951/2. ##### n.1586. Histoire particulière des plantes orchidées **Title** *Histoire particulière des plantes orchidées* recueillies sur les trois îles australes d'Afrique, de France, de Bourbon et de Madagascar;... composée de quartre-vingt-onze espèces figurées sur le vivant, et mises à l'eau-forte par l'auteur; rangées méthodiquement et dénommées par deux tableaux synoptiques; enfin décrites de manière à faire connoître tout ce qu'elles présentent de remarquable, Paris (author, Arthus Bertrand, Treuttel et Wurtz) 1822. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Hist. orchid.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1822, p. \[i-viii\], tabl. 1, 2, p. \[1\]-32, *pl. 1-110. Copies*: MO, NY. Descriptions of genera previously published by the same author in Nouveau Bulletin de la Société philomatique de Paris 1: 314-320. The plates were ready before the text and could be obtained separately. The text was published in two parts which were presented to the Académie des Sciences (Paris) on 11 Mar and 18 Nov 1822. The book was published in octavo and quarto, with plain and with coloured plates. The coloured plates were also sold separately in "cahiers" of six. The tableaux and the plates contain the new alternative names given by Thouars to the Orchids treated by him. His alternative specific epithets are used in binomials and are hence admissible (see Friis and Rasmussen 1975). – The plates, all by the author, are numbered 1-66, 68, 69, 71, 72\[bis\], 73-97, 99, 99\[bis\], 100, 101, 102, 103, 106, 107, 107\[bis\], 108, 108bis, 109 \[Nissen\]. – The announcement published in the book seems to indicate that publication may have taken place in more than two parts. *Ref*.: BM 1: 493; NI 564; PR 2535; RS p. 73; SK p. clxxix; IDC 5380. - Kuntze, Rev. gen. 1: cxxvii. 1891. - Woodward, J. Bot. 38: 394. 1900. - Tourlet, Docum. Hist. Bot. Touraine 7. 1905. - Sprague and Fischer, Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1928: 252-254, 406. - Friis and Rasmussen, Taxon 24: 307-317. 1975.