Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Biographical data

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

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

Born: 1806, Quinperlé, Dépt Finisterre, France.

career:

Surgeon in the French navy, who accompanied an expedition round the world (see below).

Bikkia guillovianus Brongn. was named after him.

Collecting localities:

Voyage in ‘L’Astrolabe’ and ‘La Zélée’, 1837-40;¹ cf. sub Hombron (detailed itiner., liter., etc.), Dumont d’Urville and Jacquinot.

collections:

Neither A. Decandolle, nor Lasègue give any information as to the location of his collections. They are with those of Hombron in Herb. Paris. [P]. In Herb. Sydney  [NSW] a few specimens. For the botanical results cf. sub Hombron.

literature:

(1) Besides of some small papers (Rev. Zool. Paris 1842, p. 138, 141, 314; L’Inst. Journ. d. Sci. et Trav. Scient. 1e sect. 9, Paris 1841, p. 279-280), Guillou is the author of ‘Voyage autour du monde, pendant les années 1837, 1838, 1839 et 1840’ (Paris 1842).

biographical data:

In Bibl. Austr. Entom. 1775-1930 (R. Zool. Soc. N.S.W. 1932, p. 135); Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.