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Balansa, Benjamin

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

Born: 1825, Narbonne, France. Died: 1892, Hanoi, Indo-China.

career:

A naturalist of Toulouse, who made extensive botanical explorations in N. Africa (1848, 1852, 1853), Asia Minor (1855-56), Morocco (1866-67), New Caledonia (1868-72), Paraguay (1877-85), and Tonkin (1885-1891).

Collecting localities:1

In Nov. 1886 he collected at least in Singapore (11); and in W. Java: at the base of G. Salak (16), at Bandoeng, and at Tjibodas on the slope of Mt Gedeh (25).

collections:

Numbered collections of the East in Herb. Cosson and de Franqueville at Paris [P], Decand. and Boiss. at Geneva [G], Herb. Cesati at Naples [NAP], Mus. Nat. Hist. Nancy [NCY], Imp. Acad. St Petersburg (778 nos) [LE], Herb. Thuret with Mr Bornet, Vienna [W], Univers. Heidelberg [HEID];2 some Malaysian dupl. in Herb. Leiden [L], and his herbarium left (purch.) of Gramineae, and plants from Tonkin and Paraguay.

literature:

(1) cf. Henrard in Meded. ‘s Rijksherbarium Leiden no 61, 1930, and Koorders, Exkursionsflora, 1, p. 148, and specimens in Herb. Leiden.
(2) cf. A. Decandolle, Phytographie, 1880.

biographical data:

Rev. de Bot. 10, 1892, p. 661-664; Rev. Mycol. 14, 1892, p. 88; ‘Flore générale de l’Indo-Chine’ tome prélim. 1944, p. 34; G. Astre, La vie de Benjamin Balansa (Mus. Hist. Nat. Toulouse 1947).

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature Biographical data
	Balansa, Benjamin
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	Born: 1825, Narbonne, France. Died: 1892, Hanoi, Indo-China.
	career: A naturalist of Toulouse, who made extensive botanical explorations in N. Africa (1848, 1852, 1853), Asia Minor (1855-56), Morocco (1866-67), New Caledonia (1868-72), Paraguay (1877-85), and Tonkin (1885-1891).
	Collecting localities:1 In Nov. 1886 he collected at least in Singapore (11); and in W. Java: at the base of G. Salak (16), at Bandoeng, and at Tjibodas on the slope of Mt Gedeh (25).
	collections: Numbered collections of the East in Herb. Cosson and de Franqueville at Paris [P], Decand. and Boiss. at Geneva [G], Herb. Cesati at Naples [NAP], Mus. Nat. Hist. Nancy [NCY], Imp. Acad. St Petersburg (778 nos) [LE], Herb. Thuret with Mr Bornet, Vienna [W], Univers. Heidelberg [HEID];2 some Malaysian dupl. in Herb. Leiden [L], and his herbarium left (purch.) of Gramineae, and plants from Tonkin and Paraguay.
	literature: (1) cf. Henrard in Meded. ‘s Rijksherbarium Leiden no 61, 1930, and Koorders, Exkursionsflora, 1, p. 148, and specimens in Herb. Leiden. (2) cf. A. Decandolle, Phytographie, 1880.
	biographical data: Rev. de Bot. 10, 1892, p. 661-664; Rev. Mycol. 14, 1892, p. 88; ‘Flore générale de l’Indo-Chine’ tome prélim. 1944, p. 34; G. Astre, La vie de Benjamin Balansa (Mus. Hist. Nat. Toulouse 1947).