Jules Cardot

{{Short description|French botanist (1860–1934)}} {{Infobox scientist/Wikidata | fetchwikidata=ALL}} '''Jules Cardot''' (18 August 1860 – 22 November 1934) was a French botanist and bryologist considered in his time one of the world's leading experts on the mosses of Antarctica.

He was the son-in-law of botanist Louis Piré. His collection of herbarium specimens at his laboratories in Charleville was heavily looted and damaged during World War I.<ref>{{Citation | title = Resolutions upon the Loss of the Collections and Library of M. Jules Cardot | year = 1919 | journal = The Bryologist | pages = 87–88 | volume = 22 | issue = 6 | last1 = Britton | first1 = Elizabeth G. | last2 = Smith | first2 = Annie Morril | last3 = Chamberlain | first3 = Edward B. | last4 = Best | first4 = G. N. | last5 = Conklin | first5 = George H. | last6 = Evans | first6 = Alexander W. | last7 = Grout | first7 = A. J. | last8 = Haynes | first8 = Caroline C. | last9 = Holzinger | first9 = J. M. | last10 = Howe | first10 = Marshall A. | last11 = Kaiser | first11 = George B. | last12 = Jennings | first12 = O. E. | last13 = Lorenz | first13 = Annie | last14 = Nichols | first14 = George E. | last15 = Plitt | first15 = Charles C. | last16 = Riddle | first16 = L. W. | last17 = Williams | first17 = R. S. | doi=10.1639/0007-2745(1919)22[87:rutlot]2.0.co;2}}</ref> The French Academy of Sciences awarded the 1893 "Prix Montague" to Cardot for his work on mosses.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Tableaux des prix décernés|title=Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences|year=1894|volume=117|page=1006|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fp9DAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1006|last1=(France)|first1=Académie des Sciences}} (The French Academy awarded the 1893 prizes on 18 December 1893.)</ref><ref>{{cite book|chapter=Science Prizes|title=American Naturalist|publisher=U. of Chicago Press|year=1894|volume=28|page=290|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fycuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA290}}</ref> Cardot named 40 genera and 1200 species.<ref>[http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000001274 Cardot, Jules (1860–1934), jstor.org]</ref> == Works == *Cardot, J. ''[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104932#page/223/mode/1up Nouvelle contribution à la flore bryologique des îles atlantiques.]'' // Bull.Herb.Boissier.Sér.2., Geneva. Impr. Romanet. Vol. v (2). Feb. 1905

With Ferdinand Renauld he edited and distributed two exsiccata series, namely ''Musci Americae Septentrionalis exsiccati'' and (1892-1908) and ''Musci Europaei exsiccati'' (? 1902-1908).<ref name="Triebel & Scholz 2001-2024">Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 ''IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae''. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.</ref>

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{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Cardot, Jules}} Category:19th-century French botanists Category:French bryologists Category:1860 births Category:1934 deaths Category:20th-century French botanists