François André Michaux

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François André Michaux (1770-1855) was a French botanist, son of André Michaux. He accompanied his father to the United States, and his Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale (three volumes, 1810-13) contains the results of his explorations and gives an account of the distribution and the scientific classification of the principal American timber trees north of Mexico and east of the Rocky Mountains. Under the title The North American Sylva it was translated by Hillhouse, with three supplementary volumes on the trees of the Rockies by T. Nuttall.

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