Albert Callay

Albert Callay
Born21 February 1822
Montcornet, Aisne, France
Died24 March 1896(1896-03-24) (aged 74)
Le Chesne, Ardennes
Scientific career
FieldsNaturalist
Callay

Eugène Albert Athanase Callay (born February 21, 1822, in Montcornet, Aisne and died in Le Chesne, Ardennes March 24, 1896) was a French pharmacist and amateur botanist who worked on classifying the flora of the department of the Ardennes.

The standard author abbreviation Callay is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

References

  1. ↑ Callay, Albert; Bestel, F (1900). Catalogue raisonné & descriptif des plantes vasculaires du département des Ardennes. Charleville: E. Jolly. (published posthumously)
  2. ↑ L'herbier d'Athanase Callay : un patrimoine historique et scientifique ignoré, dans le Bulletin de la Société d'histoire naturelle des Ardennes, 2009, t.99, 29-50
  3. ↑ International Plant Names Index. Callay.