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BROUSSONET, See also:PIERRE See also:MARIE AUGUSTE (1761-1807) , See also:French naturalist,was See also:born at See also:Montpellier on the 28th of See also:February 1761, and was educated for the medical profession. Visiting See also:England, he was admitted in 1872 an honorary member of the Royal Society, and in the same See also:year published at See also:London the first See also:part of his See also:work on fishes, Ichthyologiae Decas I, material for which was communicated to him by See also:Sir See also:Joseph See also:Banks. On his return to See also:Paris he was appointed perpetual secretary to the Society of See also:Agriculture, and in 1789 became a member of the See also:National See also:Assembly. Under the See also:convention he had to leave Paris, and after some dangers he made his way to See also:Madrid. The enmity of the French emigrants, however, drove him from See also:Spain, and afterwards from See also:Lisbon, but at last he found a See also:refuge in See also:Morocco as physician to an See also:embassy sent out by the See also:United States. Later he obtained permission from the See also:Directory to return to See also:France, and in 1805 was appointed See also:professor of See also:botany at Montpellier, where he died on the 17th of See also:January 1807.

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