Marie Jacques Philippe Sheep-Fontenille of Clotte
Marie Jacques Philippe Sheep-Fontenille of Clotte is a Naturaliste and Botaniste French, born in 1769 with Montpellier and died in 1837.
He studies in Montpellier near Antoine Gouan (1733-1821). He becomes professor of Natural history to the Académie of preserving Lyon then of the natural history museum of the city until his death. He makes appear an adaptation of the Classes plantarum of Carl von Linné (1707-1778) in 1798 follow-up in 1805 of the first translation in French of the Système of the plants of same Linné. Member of the Academy of Lyon (of 1800 to 1837), it directs the Natural history museum of Natural history of Lyon of 1816 to 1830. The captain Gaspard Louis André Michaud (1795-1880) dedicated a mollusc to him: Helix fontenillii .
List partial of the publications
- Table of the systems of botany, generals and private individuals… Followed by two memories whose first as an aim a succession of observations… on the dessication of the plants… the second has contains observations on the various species of plants specific to the mountains limestones of the surroundings of Grenoble, by the citizen Sheep-Fontenille (Lyon, 1798).
- Observations and experiments on the art of empailler and to preserve the birds… by the citizens Hénon and Sheep-Fontenille,… (elder Bruyset, Lyon, 1801; republished in 1802).
- Dictionary of the technical terms of botany… (elder Bruyset, Lyon, 1803).
- System of the plants… extracted and translated works of Linné (elder Bruyset and Buynand, Lyon, 1804 - 1805).
- Observations on the marmot (Brunot-Labbe, Paris, 1808).
- Blow-with eye on botany, marked speech on Wednesday, May 9, 1810, day of opening of the course of natural history to the Academy of Lyon (Yvernault and Cabin, Lyon, 1810).
- the Art of empailler birds… making following the elementary Treaty of ornithology (Yvernault and Cabin, Lyon, 1811).
- Treated elementary of ornithology… Follow-up of the art of empailler birds… (Yvernault and Cabin, Lyon, 1811).
- France in convulsion during the second usurpation of Buonaparte (Lyon, 1815).
- France is delirious about it, during the two usurpations of Buonaparte (Paris, 1815).
Source
- Pascal Duris (1993). Linné and France (1780-1850) . Bookstore Droz (Geneva), literary collection History of the ideas and critical, n° 318: 281 p.