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: 1790, Maillé, Vendée, France. Died: 1869, Rochefort, France.

career:

Surgeon in the French Navy; naturalist to some French expeditions (see below), during which he undertook the zoological department together with Gaimard.

Acrostichum quoyanum GAUD. (= Campium - Copel.) was named after him.

Collecting localities:

Voyage in the ‘Uranie’, 1817-20;¹ cf. detailed data sub Gaudichaud. Quoi and Duperrey visited P. Kera in the Bay of Koepang together, and in company with others Bakoelnasi, S of Koepang (Timor).-Voyage in the ‘Astrolabe’, 1826-29;² cf. sub P.A. Lesson.

collections:

Herb. Paris [P]: at least plants from the Bay of Doré (NW. New Guinea) and from the Minahassa (N. Celebes), together with Gaimard.³ MSS in Libr. Nat. Hist. Mus. Paris.⁴

literature:

(1) cf. Liter. sub Gaudichaud. Quoi & Gaimard published the zoological results of the expedition in the ‘Uranie’ (Paris 1824, 1 vol.).

(2) cf. Liter. sub P.A. Lesson.

Quoi and Gaimard published the zoological results of the ‘Astrolabe’ (Paris, 1830-34, 4 vols).

(3) The botanical results were published by A. Richard in ‘Sertum Astrolabianum’ (Paris 1834).

(4) cf. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 1, 1895, p. 27.

biographical data:

Act. Mus. Hist. Nat. Rouen 27, 28, 1922, p. 486; in Bibliogr. Austr. Entom. 1775-1930, 1932; Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.