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Antoine-Laurent Jussieu, French botanist, 1880. Born in Lyon, Jussieu (1748-1836), the nephew of the botanist Bernard de Jussieu, studied medicine, graduating in 1770. He was professor of botany at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, from 1770-1826 and his classification of many of the the plant families is still used today. From The Vegetable World by Louis Figuier. (London, c1880).