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The snakes of Europe
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Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd, London, England.
1913
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George Albert Boulenger (19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Boulenger was also an active botanist during the last 30 years of his life, especially in the study of roses. He graduated in 1876 from the Free University of Brussels with a degree in natural sciences, and worked for a while at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, as an assistant naturalist studying amphibians, reptiles, and fishes. He also made frequent visits during this time to the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris and the British Museum in London.
In 1880, he was invited to work at the Natural History Museum, then a department of the British Museum, by Dr. Albert C. L. G. Günther and assigned to the task of cataloguing the amphibians in the collection. His position in the British Museum meant that he had to be a civil servant of the British Empire, so became a naturalized British subject. In 1882, ...
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The standard author abbreviation used to indicate this person as the author, when citing a botanical name: Boulenger
24 plant species named BY Boulenger and 1 plant species named AFTER Boulenger.
The snakes of EuropeThe following 24 plant species names have been described and named BY Boulenger (Boulenger)
Hesperhodos stellatus (Wooton) Boulenger, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 14: 234 (1937).
Hesperhodos vernoni (Greene) Boulenger, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 14: 237 (1937).
Rosa alticola Boulenger, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 13: 171, in clavi, 220 (1935).
Rosa barbeyi Boulenger, Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles, Ser. B liii. 142, in clavi; et in Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel, xliv. 281 (1933) et in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. ix. 220 (1933) (1933).
Rosa bottaiana Boulenger, Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles, Ser. B liii. 142, in clavi; et in Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel, xliv. 280 (1933) et in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. ix. 218 (1933) (1933).
Rosa calva (Franch. & Sav.) Boulenger, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 9: 268 (1933).
Rosa cardoti Boulenger, Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles, Ser. B liii. 143, in clavi; et in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. ix. 254 (1933), descr. ampl (1933).
Rosa crocacantha Boulenger, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 14: 276 (1937).
Rosa delavayana Boulenger, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 14: 193 (1936).
Rosa fargesiana Boulenger, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 14: 182 (1936).
Rosa fargesii Boulenger, Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles, Ser. B liii. 143, in clavi; et in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. ix. 253 (1933), descr. ampl (1933).
Rosa forrestiana Boulenger, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 14: 126 (1936).
Rosa grisebachii Boulenger, Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles, Ser. B liii. 142, in clavi; et in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. ix. 213 (1933), descr. ampl (1933).
Rosa henryi Boulenger, Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles, Ser. B liii. 143, in clavi; et in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. ix. 231 (1933), descr. ampl (1933).
Rosa ichangensis Boulenger, Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles, Ser. B liii. 143, in clavi; et in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. ix. 243 (1933), descr. ampl (1933).
Rosa korschinskiana Boulenger, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 13: 170, in clavi, 213 (1935).
Rosa latibracteata Boulenger, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 14: 124 (1936).
Rosa lecomtei Boulenger, Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles, Ser. B liii. 143, in clavi; et in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. ix. 256 (1933), descr. ampl (1933).
Rosa mulliganii Boulenger, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 14: 274 (1937).
Rosa nanothamnus Boulenger, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 13: 170, in clavi, 206 (1935).
Rosa primula Boulenger, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 14: 121 (1936).
Rosa ptychophylla Boulenger, J. Bot. 58: 16 (1920).
Rosa schweinfurthii Boulenger, Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles, Ser. B liii. 142, in clavi; et in Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel, xliv. 283 (1933) et in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. ix. 22: (1933) (1933).
Rosa yunnanensis (Crép.) Boulenger, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 9: 235 (1933).