Achille Richard


Achille Richard was a French botanist, botanical illustrator and physician.

Biography

Achille was the son of the botanist Louis-Claude Marie Richard. He was a pharmacist in the French navy, and a member of several well-known societies of that time. He became a leading botanist, and his books remain valued for their clarity and precision.
On 24 February 1834 he was made a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was also a member of the Académie Nationale [de Médecine|French National Academy of Medicine]. He studied and described several genera of orchids that take his abbreviation in the generic name, among them Ludisia.

Works

  • 1819 Nouveaux Éléments de Botanique, Paris.
  • 1820 .
  • 1828 Monographie des orchidées des îles de France et de Bourbon,
  • 1829 Mémoire sur la famille des rubiacées contenant la description générale de cette famille et les caractères des genres qui la composent,
  • 1834 , part 1 of Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe
  • 1839–1843,, a natural history
  • 1845 ''Histoire Physique, Politique et Naturelle de L'Ile de Cuba. Botanique. Plantes Vasculaires.''