and befriended the writer, historian and archaeol- ogist Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870) and the author J Stendhal (alias of Marie Henri Beyle, 1783–1842). He also fell in love with the singer Adelaide Schiasetti (b.1800), who herself appears to have been enam- oured of Stendhal. To get over this unrequited love, Jacquemont made a journey of exploration to North America. After his Jackson, Kate first exploration he stayed for a time with his broth- Kate Jackson is currently (2012) Assistant Professor er Frédéric in Haiti, where he ran into the botanist of Biology at Whitman College, Walla Walla, François Simon Cordier (1797–1874), who transmitted Washington. She obtained an MSc in Zoology from the to him a proposal by the to explore University of Toronto 1995, and a PhD from Harvard a country of his choice. Jacquemont chose India. in 2002. She specializes in snakes. Jacquemont accepted the proposal and returned to Paris to start making preparations. He visited London 2008 and obtained the necessary permits from the British Mean and lowly things. Snakes, science and survival in the East India Company, after which he travelled back Congo. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: Harvard to . He left France in August 1828 and reached University Press. Description: viii, 328, 24 p. of col. the Cape after eight months, where he met Dumont illus.; 21 cm. d’Urville (1790–1842). He then visited Réunion (Île de Contents. A narrative of two herpetological (i.e. con- Bourbon), where he witnessed the practice of slavery cerning amphibians and reptiles) collecting trips in with abhorrence. In May 1829 he arrived in Kolkata the People’s Republic of Congo. The author admirably (formerly Calcutta). manages to get across what is involved in collecting Jacquemont travelled and worked for three years reptiles and amphibians; she also vividly describes the in India, reaching the heart of the Himalaya, visit- local situation, the sometimes frustrating experiences, ing Ladakh and the environs of the cities of Lahore, the political sensibilities, and the special difficulties Bardhana and Amber. He despatched his collections inevitably associated with this type of work in a devel- with care to Paris when he began to feel very ill. He oping country. was taken to a hospital in Mumbai, where he died. His collections, including 5,800 botanical specimens and Jacquemont, Venceslas Victor (1801–1832) many rock samples, arrived safely at the Muséum in A.W. Brown et al. 1959 ■ Entry ‘Jacquemont (Victor)’ Paris in the summer of 1833. NBG 26, col. 223–226. Prosper Mérimée edited his correspondence (Correspondance de Victor Jacquemont avec sa famille et The French naturalist and explorer Venceslas Victor ...1828–1832), 1833). In 1881 his remained were disin- Jacquemont was born in Paris on 8 August 1801 and terred and transported to France. He was reburied in a died at Bombay (now Mumbai), India, on 8 December crypt in the Jardin des Plantes. 1832. Jacquemont studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and 1833 at the Collège de France (originally called Collège Correspondance de Victor Jacquemont avec sa famille Royal), where he studied medicine, and et plusieurs de ses amis, pendant son voyage dans l’Inde geology. Jacquemont had a special love for bota- (1828–1832). Paris: H. Fournier. Description: 388, 374, ny; his teacher in this discipline was René Louiche map; 23 cm. Desfontaines (1750–1833). He made many botanical ¶¶ 1834, Bruxelles: H. Dumont & London: Dolau. excursions in various regions of France Description: 360; 353, ill, map; 18 cm. Together with his friends, the botanist Adrien Henri ¶¶ 1835, 2nd French ed. Paris: H. Fournier. Description: de Jussieu (1797–1853) and the palaeontologist and 434, 417, map; 22 cm. botanist Adolphe Brogniart (1801–1876) he erected the ¶¶ 1836, Bruxelles: H. Dumont. Société Naturaliste de Paris (Natural History Society ¶¶ 1838, new ed. Paris: Garnier Frères & Paris: of Paris). H. Fournier. Jacquemont continued his studies at the Muséum ¶¶ 1841, new ed, Paris: Garnier Frères & Paris: d’Histoire Naturelle under the guidance of the miner- H. Fournier aîné. alogist Alexandre Brogniart (1770–1847), the natural- ¶¶ 1843, new augm. Belgian ed. Correspondance ist Geoffroy St. Hilaire (1772–1844) and the zoologist, [...] (1828–1832). Nouvelle édition augmentée de let- geologist and palaeontologist (1769– tres inédites. Bruxelles: Wouters, Raspoet et Cie. 1832). Description: 278, fold. map; 284. Jacquemont studied by day and frequented the fash- ¶¶ 1846, 4th ed., Correspondance [...] 1828–1832, with ionable salons of Paris in the evenings, where he met a new map. Paris: Garnier & Paris: H. Fournier.

Jacquemont, Venceslas Victor | 221 Description: 370, 372, map; 17 cm. It is not quite clear Bevölkerung der russischen Länder jenseits des Kaukasus. which edition is counted as the third. Leipzig: Wilhelm Nauch. Description: 65, [b]. ¶¶ 1861, 5th ed. Correspondance [...] 1828–1832 with a ¶¶ [2010], facs. Saarbrücken: Fines Mundi. This con- new map. Paris: Garnier Frères. Description: 432; 442, cerns only the first part, without theVersuch . map; 19 cm. Contents. The narrative offers a concise itinerary ¶¶ 1862, Correspondance [...] 1828–1832, précédée d’une followed by a list of insects collected at the end of étude sur Jacquemont par Cuvillier-Fleury. Paris: Michel each section. The text itself contains little reference Lévy. to the natural history. The author visits St Petersburg, ¶¶ 1868, Paris: Michel Lévy frères. Reprinted 1869. Moscow, Tula, Orel, Kiev, Tsarsko-Kaloz, Tbilisi, ¶¶ 1869–1871, Correspondance de Victor Jacquemont avec Jekaterinogradskaja, Georgiewsk, Stavropol, Voronez, sa famille et ses amis, pendant son voyage dans l’In- Kazan. de, 1828-1832, précédée d’une étude sur Jacquemont par Cuvillier-Fleury,[...] Nouvelle édition augmentée de lettres James, Edwin P. (1797–1861) et fragments inédits [...]. 2 vols. Paris: Michel Lévy C.C. Carpenter, ‘James, Edwin (1797–1861)’, Frères and Garnier Frères. Description: xxxv, 455; 442. Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, The title page states that this is the fifth, new and aug- Oklahoma Historical Society, website www. mented edition. okhistory.org/publications/, go to ‘encyclopedia’, English: then go to ‘James. Edwin’; accessed 14-07-2015. ¶¶ 1834, Letters from India: describing a journey in the British dominions of India, Tibet, Lahore, and Cashmere, The American geographer, explorer and botanist during the years 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, undertaken Edwin P. James was born in Weybridge, Vermont, on by order of the French government. London: Edward 27 August 1797 and died in Burlington, Iowa on 28 Churton. Description: 22 cm. October 1861. ¶¶ 1936, Letters from India, 1829–1832, being a selection James entered Middlebury College in Vermont in from the correspondence of Victor Jacquemont. Translated 1812. After graduating in 1816 he moved to Albany, and introduced by C.A. Phillips. London: Macmillan New York, where he continued his studies in medicine & Co. Description: xxxii, 372, front., pl., fold. maps; under his brother Daniel James. He also studied bota- 23 cm. ny under John Torrey (1796–1873), and geology under Amos Eaton (1776–1842). 1867 In 1820 he joined the expedition (1819–1820) led by Correspondance inédite de Victor Jacquemont avec sa Major Stephen Harriman Long (1784–1864) to the famille et ses amis, 1824-1832. With a biographical Rocky Mountains as a surgeon, botanist and geologist, notice by V. Jacquemont du Donion (nephew), and an thus becoming one of the first scientists to explore introduction by P. Mérimée. Paris: Michel Lévy Frères. the Rocky Mountains. He also led the first recorded Description: xvi, 390, 384; 21 cm. ascent of Pikes’ Peak. James wrote a description of the ¶¶ 1877, 2nd ed. Paris: Michel Lévy. expedition. ¶¶ 1885, new ed. Paris: C. Lévy. Description: xvi, 390; James afterwards became a surgeon in the U.S. army, 436: 18 cm. serving at outposts of the American frontier. He also served as an Indian agent to the Ojibwe tribe and 1841–1844 learnt their language. After leaving government service Voyage dans l’Inde, pendant les années 1828 à 1832. 6 vols. he settled in Iowa and published nine books, including Paris: Firmin Didot Frères. Vols I-III (1841) contain the a translation of the Bible in Ojibwe. journal, the other volumes (1844) include the descrip- tion of the expedition results and an atlas. The first 1823 three volumes appeared in 1841. Description of vols Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky 1-3: 526, 490, 644; 38 cm. Mountains, performed in the years 1819 and ’20: by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec’y of War: under the command of Jäger, B. Major Stephen H. Long. From the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the exploring party. 2 vols. 1830 plus atlas. Philadelphia: Carey and Lea. Description: Reise von St Petersburg in die Krim und die Länder des 553; 442, xcviii; 10 pl.; 23 cm, atlas (30 x 26 cm). Kaukasus im Jahre 1825; nebst einer Darstellung des Appendices and atlas dated 1822. natürlichen Reichthums, der Grösze und bevölkerung der ¶¶ 1823a, another ed. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Russischen provinzen jenseits des Kaukasus. Leipzig: Rees, Orme and Brown. Description: iii, 344, 1 fold. Hartmann. Description: xii, 162. map, 3 ll. of pl.; vii, 356, 3 ll. of pl.; vii, 347, 2 ll. of pl., 1 This is usually bound together with Versuch einer fold. l., map, plan; 23 cm. Darstellung des natürlichen Reichthums der Größe und

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