A botanical micro-slide library of Raymond Decary at the Herbarium of Paris (P): some remarks on a recent recovery

摘要

Raymond Decary (Fig.1) worked as a colonial administrator in Madagascar between the two World Wars, gathering during his rounds and on some special missions as official representative of the Muséum, numerous collections, relevant for both natural history and for ethnology (Balard 2003). The total of his botanical specimens - all kept at P - comes to 58,000 sheets, including 19,390 collection numbers and 160 unnumbered sheets (Decary 1960).