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Darwin Correspondence Project

Elie Abel Carrière

1818–96

French botanist and horticulturist. Started work at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle at the age of 14 and rose to the rank of head perennial grower. Head of the botanic garden, Zaragossa, Spain, in the early 1860s; head of the nursery, Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, 1862–9. Editor of the Revue Horticole from 1862; editor-in-chief, 1869–96. Worked on peach trees, dimorphism, and hybridity.

Source

Barnhart comp. 1965, Revue Horticole (1896): 389–97, Tort 1996.

Bibliography

Tort, Patrick. 1996. Dictionnaire du Darwinisme et de l’evolution. 3 vols. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.

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