Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée was a French botanist who was born in Ardentes , 7 November 1789, and died in Paris on 21 May 1874. He was the author of works on botany and mycology, practical and historical pharmacology, Darwinism , and his experiences in several regions of Europe.
14-626: After serving as a medical orderly during Napoleon's campaign in Spain, Fée established a pharmacy in Paris. He was schooled in the profession in Strasbourg, receiving his degree in 1815. He met the botanist Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in 1823, and came to be strongly influenced by him. Fée later became an instructor at teaching hospitals, firstly in Lille in 1825, then at Strasbourg in 1832. There he
28-447: A doctorate from the "Kaiserlich-Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher" in 1799. He moved to Paris in 1802, where he spent the rest of his life, renting an upper floor of a house in a poor part of town. He was apparently unemployed, unmarried, poverty-stricken and a recluse, although he corresponded with botanists throughout Europe. Because of his financial difficulties, Persoon agreed to donate his herbarium to
42-480: Is located within the Stockholm region's Royal National City Park . The academy has elected about 1,700 Swedish and 1,200 foreign members since it was founded in 1739. Today, the academy has about 470 Swedish and 175 foreign members which are divided into ten "classes", representing ten various scientific disciplines: The following persons have served as permanent secretaries of the academy: The transactions of
56-532: The House of Orange , in return for an adequate pension for life. The origin of Persoon's botanical interest is unknown. The earliest of his works was Abbildungen der Schwämme (Illustrations of the fungi), published in three parts, in 1790, 1791, and 1793. In 1794, Persoon introduced the term lirella for the furrowed ascomata of the lichen genus Graphis . Between 1805 and 1807, he published two volumes of his Synopsis plantarum Archived 20 May 2011 at
70-724: The National Herbarium of the Netherlands and the CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( Swedish : Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien ) is one of the royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special responsibility for promoting natural sciences and mathematics and strengthening their influence in society, whilst endeavouring to promote
84-857: The Wayback Machine , a popular work describing 20,000 species of all types of plants. But his pioneering work was in the fungi, for which he published several works, beginning with the Synopsis methodica fungorum (1801); it is the starting point for nomenclature of the Uredinales , Ustilaginales , and the Gasteromycetes . Persoon described many polypore species; most were from his own collections in central Europe, while several other tropical species were sent to him from collections made by French botanist Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré during his circumglobal expedition. These latter fungi are among
98-461: The Cryptogams that grow on Exotic Medicinal Barks). Fée was primarily focused on tropical and medicinal plants. He also wrote a review of systema naturae in 1830, and a biography of its author, Linnaeus , published in 1832. He also discussed early botanists and systematic works. Christiaan Hendrik Persoon Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1 February 1761 – 16 November 1836)
112-402: The academy ( Vetenskapsakademiens handlingar ) were published as its main series between 1739 and 1974. In parallel, other major series have appeared and gone: The academy started publishing annual reports in physics and chemistry (1826), technology (1827), botany (1831), and zoology (1832). These lasted into the 1860s, when they were replaced by the single Bihang series (meaning: supplement to
126-694: The academy was to focus on practically useful knowledge, and to publish in Swedish in order to widely disseminate the academy's findings. The academy was intended to be different from the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala , which had been founded in 1719 and published in Latin . The location close to the commercial activities in Sweden's capital (which unlike Uppsala did not have a university at this time)
140-894: The exchange of ideas between various disciplines. The goals of the academy are: Every year, the academy awards the Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry , the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , the Crafoord Prize , the Sjöberg Prize and several other awards. The academy maintains close relations with foreign academies, learned societies and international scientific organizations and also promotes international scientific cooperation. The Academy of Sciences
154-554: The first tropical polypores ever described. In 1815, Persoon was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . Persoon was a prolific author of new fungal species, having formally described 2269 in his career. The genus Persoonia , a variety of small Australian trees and shrubs, was named after him. The title Persoonia is also given to a biannual scientific journal of molecular phylogeny and evolution of fungi, published jointly by
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#1732798387173168-617: The transactions). Starting in 1887, this series was once again split into four sections ( afdelning ), which in 1903, became independent scientific journals of their own, titled "Arkiv för..." (archive for...). These included: Further restructuring of their topics occurred in 1949 and 1974. Other defunct journals of the academy include: The academy was founded on 2 June 1739 by naturalist Carl Linnaeus , mercantilist Jonas Alströmer , mechanical engineer Mårten Triewald , civil servants Sten Carl Bielke and Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm , and statesman/author Anders Johan von Höpken . The purpose of
182-605: Was a Cape Colony mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus ' mushroom taxonomy . Persoon was born in Cape Colony at the Cape of Good Hope , the third child of an immigrant Pomeranian father and Dutch mother. His mother died soon after he was born; at the age of thirteen his father (who died a year later) sent him to Europe for his education. Initially studying theology at Halle , at age 22 (in 1784) Persoon switched to medicine at Leiden and Göttingen . He received
196-554: Was promoted to M.D. and professor of botany. He also managed the botanical garden until Strasbourg was taken by the Prussians at the end of their war with France. Fée left and moved to Paris . In 1874 he was elected as the president of the Société botanique de France . He was a cryptogamist - working on ferns, lichens, and fungi - who published a 7-volume series Essai sur les Cryptogames de écorces exotiques officinales (Essay on
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