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    Père Jean-Marie Delavay (28 December 1834 – 31 December 1895) was a French missionary, explorer and botanist. He was perhaps the first Western explorer...
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    delavayi honours the 19th century French explorer and botanist Père Jean Marie Delavay. The cultivar 'Ankum' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's...
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  • from China collected in Yunnan by Father Delavay. is a book by Adrien René Franchet and Père Jean Marie Delavay, with Franchet describing and establishing...
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    Catholic missionaries in China, Armand David, Pierre Jean Marie Delavay, Paul Guillaume Farges, Jean-André Soulié, and others. He was the taxonomic author...
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  • Anton de Bary Joseph Decaisne Ethel de Fraine (1879–1918) Pierre Jean Marie Delavay Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert Stefano delle Chiaje Giuseppe De Notaris...
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    The name delavayi honours the French missionary and botanist Père Jean Marie Delavay (1834-1895). Lonicera similis var. delavayi is hardy down to −15 °C...
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    Abies delavayi (redirect from Delavay's Fir)
    tree line. The species is named after its discoverer, Father Pierre Jean Marie Delavay, who collected it at 3,500–4,000 m on the Cang Mountain near Dali...
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    threatened by habitat loss. It was originally discovered by Père Jean Marie Delavay, but later introduced to western horticulture by the Scottish botanist...
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    Episode "Shangri-La" of the BBC nature documentary Wild China Pierre Jean Marie Delavay, a French Catholic missionary and botanist who explored the region...
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    name in China is 滇牡丹 (diān mǔdan). In English it is called Delavay's tree peony, Delavay peony, Dian peony, and dian mu dan. It mostly has red brown...
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    delavayi was discovered by the Jesuit missionary-botanist Fr Pierre Jean Marie Delavay in the mountains near Lan-kong in Yunnan province, China, in 1890...
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    its rich, diverse flora, first scientifically documented by Pierre Jean Marie Delavay in 1882. In 1991 construction began on a paved walkway running north...
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    discovered in August 1888 by missionary and plant collector Pierre Jean Marie Delavay in Tapintse on the northern tip of Lake Dali in northwestern Yunnan...
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    native to China, Tibet, and Upper Burma. It was discovered by Pierre Jean Marie Delavay in 1887. It has an upright growth habit, to a height of 3 metres,...
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    recipient of the "Two Bombs, One Satellite" Meritorious Award Pierre Jean Marie Delavay, 19th-century French missionary, lived and died in Kunming Lamu Gatusa...
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  • (born 1966) de Laub. – David John de Laubenfels (1925–2016) Delavay – Pierre Jean Marie Delavay (1834–1895) D.E.Lee – Daphne Euphemia Lee (born 1950) Deless...
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    garden groundcover "Discovery" of R. tricolor is credited to Père Jean Marie Delavay, and first introduced from China to the west in 1908 by plant collector...
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    collected for Oberthür Théodore Monbeig collected for Oberthür Père Jean Marie Delavay collected for Oberthür Auguste Desgodins collected for Oberthür Théodore...
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    Père Jean Marie Delavay. It was originally found in the marshes in the Yunnan province of China. Seeds of the iris were then sent by Abbé Delavay to the...
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  • playwright (born 1824) 11 December – Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut, critic (born 1825) 31 December – Père Jean Marie Delavay, missionary, explorer and botanist...
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  • species in Plantae Delavayanae as part of a specimen collection by Père Jean Marie Delavay and taxonomy work of Adrien René Franchet. It was accepted as a plant...
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    (1821–1903), French colonial administrator Myodocarpaceae Bu Delavaya Père Jean Marie Delavay (1834–1895) Sapindaceae Qu Delilia Alire Raffeneau Delile (1778–1850)...
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  • December - Léon Walras, economist (died 1910). 28 December - Pierre Jean Marie Delavay, missionary, explorer and botanist (died 1895). 20 May - Gilbert du...
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    description was based on specimens collected in 1887 and 1888 by Père Jean Marie Delavay from Heechanmen, near Dali in Yunnan. The variety was raised to a...
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  • (E.N. Itnelav), Mitzie Evans (Gates), Quinn Cunningham (Minister), Don Delavay (Griffin the Butler), G. Edward McKinley (Curtis Langley Dodd), Walter...
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  • Emile Pomi ECC 1984 (11th) 1985–86 Lionel Tournier Thierry Mercier Jean-Francois Delavay Pascal Coppel WJCC 1986 (9th) Dominique Dupont-Roc Christian Dupont-Roc...
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