Lipkin, 2003). A senior director of the Phycological Trailblazer scien fic project was the zoologist Geoffroy No. 26 Saint- Hilaire. The keen interest in all things Egyp an extended even to the algae, and a Alire Raffeneau Delile total of 35 species were collected: 23 species from the Mediterranean (in the vicinity of Alexandria) and 12 species from the Red Sea (originally printed in the Phycological newsle er. 2007. (Aleem, 1993). The large-forma ed 62 plates Vol. 43 No. 1) were executed by the ar st Henry- Joseph Redouté, brother of the renown Pierre- Alire Raffeneau Delile (1778-1850) was Joseph Redouté. Among the new species born at Versailles a decade prior to the described by Delile (1813b, 1826) was Ulva French revolu on. His father was equerry to fasciata (Fig. 1), a species now thought to be the king, and his mother was in service to the iden cal to Ulva lactuca Linnaeus. He also queen (Duval, 1982). As typical of his me, described Fucus taxiformis [= Asparagopsis Delile was both a prac cing physician and a taxiformis (Delile) Trevisan], Fucus botanist. By his high marks on a compe ve nayadiformis [= Acanthophora nayadiformis exam, he was admi ed to the École de Santé (Delile) Papenfuss], Fucus cyanospermus [= in Paris. Although he was appren ced to Dr. Palisada perforata (Bory) K.W. Nam], Fucus Brunyer, a physician in antennulatus [= the hospices of Cystoseira myrica (S.G. Versailles, he spent his Gmel.) C. Agardh], and free me wandering the Fucus tetragonus nom. gardens and illeg. [= Sargassum conservatories of the den folium (Turner) C. Trianon. Conversa ons Agardh]. with the eminent While Delile was in botanist Lemonnier Egypt, the French fleet shi ed his focus to was destroyed by the plants. Delile also met Bri sh Navy under the René-Louiche command of Rear Desfontaines, who was Admiral Hora o Nelson influen al in Delile’s in the Ba le of the Nile, decision to par cipate as or Ba le of Aboukir Bay, a botanist in Napoleon on 1 August 1798. This Bonaparte’s exploratory defeat brought French expedi on to Egypt, designs in the Middle even though Delile was Alire Raffeneau Delile (from Rioux, 1994, Le East to an end. The only twenty years old. In Jardin des plantes des Montpellier…). return of Delile and his fact, Delile was a compatriots to France replacement on the was ini ally blocked. But expedi on for Desfontaines (Rioux, 2003). Delile and the others were content to carry This conquest of Egypt by the army of on their scien fic work. Delile was able to Napoleon in the period from 1798 to 1801 con nue to collect plants, such as papyrus, was not only a military opera on but also a and to cul vate many of them on the scien fic and cultural phenomenon (Silva & grounds of a villa in Cairo, which he
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