IMPORTANT FRENCH HERBARIUM with 73 of the pages being initialled D.D., being the French Botanist and Malacologist Abbé Dominique Dupuy

PENSIONNAT DES SOEURS DE NEVERS A LECTOURE PRIX DE BOTANIQUE 1878

Dated 1878, this is an important French Herbarium titled on the spine “Pensionnat Soeurs De Nevers A Lectoure”, which roughly translates as “Boarding School of the Sisters of Nevers in Lectoure”

Containing around eighty five pages of dried pressed plants, of those around 73 are signed “D.D.” this is the French Botanist and Malacologist Abbé Dominique Dupuy of Lectoure in France.

The Herbarium is bound in a half leather binding, just under 41cm tall.

The binding has some general rubbing wear with scuffs to the paper covering and rubbing to the leather, else in solid condition, internally all the pages are pictured so content and condition can be seen.

Abbé Dominique Dupuy (1812-1885) botanist, malacologist and more broadly a biologist, born in Lectoure (department of Gers). Abbé Dupuy is today an important figure, particularly for the science of disease, as evidenced by the obituary published in 1885 in the Journal de Conchyliologie. The only known portrait to date with his biography would be in Bulletins de la Société malacologique de France.

Dominique Dupuy was also a member of the Botanical Society of France, an honorary member of the Natural History Society of Toulouse in 1872 and a member of the Departmental Society of Agriculture and Horticulture of the Gers within which he directed publications.

Very well known under the status of botanist, it was nevertheless the science of malacology that earned him the most fame because it was within this discipline that he showed the most ambition. He was one of the first malacologists who extended the desire for a colossal undertaking of inventory within the science of malacology suggested by Abbé Poiret, Lamarck and Draparnaud. The Contributions to the French Malacological Fauna detail all the work of the scientist, thus affirming his importance and his role within this discipline. He is a specialist in conchology and in particular in the examination of the shells and external parts of the animal.  Its collection of land and fluvial molluscs from the region was built up around 1850 and donated to the museum of Toulouse on 16 July 1879. Other specimens were donated to the Natural History Museum of Metz in 1885, as well as many other museums around the world such as Cincinnati, Avellino, Saint-Cyr, Arcachon, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Montauban, Dupuy's collection is one of the most important collections of malacology because of the quality of its specimens.

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