Pierre Louis Jean Ivolas

Pierre Louis Jean Ivolas (7 April 1842, Sète – 29 June 1908, Tours) was a French naturalist.^[1]

A professor at the Lycée in Tours, he is remembered for geological studies of central France and botanical investigations of Indre-et-Loire. He was a good friend of botanist Ernest Henry Tourlet — Ivolas took over the completion of Catalogue raisonné des plantes vasculaires du département d'Indre-et-Loire following the death of Tourlet in 1907.^[2]

In 1879 he became a member of the Société Botanique de France.^[2] His herbarium is kept at the Herbarium of the University of Montpellier 2 Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc.^[3] With Albert Peyrot, he is the taxonomic authority of the sea snail species Eulima elongata.^[4][5]

Publications

• Contribution à l'étude paléontologique des faluns de la Touraine, 1900 (with A. Peyrot) – Contribution to the paleontological study of faluns of Touraine.
• Les jardins alpins; description, ressources, etc., de ceux actuellement connus en Europe, 1908 – Alpine gardens; description, resources, etc.^[6]

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