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Authorised form of nameCandolle; Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de (1806 - 1893)
Dates1806 - 1893
NationalityFrench
Place of birthParis, France
Date of birth17 or 27 October 1806
Place of deathGeneva, Switzerland
Date of death04 April 1893
Research fieldBotany
Phytogeography
ActivityCareer:
Grew up in Montpellier; settled in Geneva and worked in collaboration with his father
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election29/04/1869
RelationshipsSon of Augustin Pyrame de Candolle (For Mem RS 1822)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1894-1895 vol 57 pp xiv-xx signed by J D H
Notes:
DSB gives date of birth as 17 October
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/9858639
CodeNA3552
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1869/01Candolle, Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/7/651Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons6 April 1893
NLB/7/745Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Turner Thiselton-Dyer18 April 1893
NLB/7/696Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to M C De Candolle, Geneva11 April 1893
MC/10/420Letter from Alph [Alphonse] de Candolle, Geneva, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]8 July 1876
NLB/1/585Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to M Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de Candolle, Foreign Member of the Royal Society28 September 1887
MC/8/360Letter from Alph [Alphonse] de Candolle, Geneva, to W H [William Hallowes] Miller, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society7 May 1869
MC/8/361Letter from Alph [Alphonse] de Candolle, Geneva, to [Sir Edward Sabine], President of the Royal Society7 May 1869
MC/10/226Letter from Alph [Alphonse] de Candolle, Geneva, to the Royal Society25 February 1875
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
MC/16/28Letter from C de Candolle, Geneva, to Lord Kelvin [William Thomson], President of the Royal Society9 April 1893
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
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