Jean Leschenault Baptist of the Tower

Jean Baptist Louis Claude Theodore Leschenault of the Tower , born the November 13rd 1773 and dead the March 14th 1826, is a Botaniste and Ornithologue French.

The voyage in Australia and Indonesia

In 1798, Jean Baptiste Louis Claude Leschenault of the Tower goes to Paris after the death of his/her father, judges with Dijon. Its interest for the Natural history the fact of noticing and it is selected as botanist in the forwarding led by Nicolas Baudin (1754-1803), forwarding which counts nine Zoologiste S and botanists.

Between 1800 and 1803, he is botanist as a chief of the forwarding of Nicolas Baudin towards the Australia. It collects a great number of new specimens in 1801 and 1802, but it is so sick in April 1803 which it must be unloaded with the Timor.

Constrained to spend the three following years to Java, it benefits from it to lead to it the first serious botanical study on this island never visited before by naturalists, if it is not a short investigation of Carl Peter Thunberg.

It returns in France in July 1807 with a vast collection of Plante S and Oiseau X. The latter are described by Georges Cuvier and Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot. It also gives access to its notes to Coenraad Jacob Temminck. As for its collection of floral species, it enables him to obtain a pension of the French government.

The voyage in India

In May 1816, Leschenault of the Tower embarks for the India in order to collect there new plants with Pondichéry. It obtains British authorities there the permission to travel through the Tamil Nadu, the Bengal and the island of Ceylon.

It sends the plants and seeds that it discovers there with the island Bourbon so that they are cultivated there. Among these sendings, one counts two varieties of Canne to sugar and six varieties of Coton.

It turns over to France in 1822 and is decorated there with the Légion of honor.

The voyage in South America

Less than one after its arrival, it embarks for the South America. He visits the Brésil, Guyanes French Dutchwoman and . He introduces with Cayenne various seedlings of The.

It is forced to return at his place after only 18 months because of a failing health.

Additional details

A certain number of species were named in homage to Leschenault of the Tower, among which:

the millepertuis Hypericum leschenaultii ,

the birds Charadrius leschenaultii , Enicurus leschenaulti and Phaenicophaeus leschenaultii .

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