The famous scientist Jean Vivant is being honoured with an exhibition

The famous scientist Jean Vivant is being honoured with the exhibition « Jean Vivant d’Orthez à la Guadeloupe, une vie de naturaliste » (Jean Vivant d’Orthez in Guadeloupe, a naturalist's life)

The Jean-Louis-Curtis media library (Orthez, 64) is organising an exhibition on the botanist Jean Vivant. Visitors can view the exhibit on site, and also online on the media library's portal.

Jean Vivant was a teacher and a great specialist in the flora and fungi of the French Western Pyrenees. A tireless worker, he wrote about 200 publications, most notably in Le monde des plantes, the Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France and the Société Mycologique de France. His herbarium, of great value, contains specimens from France (especially the flora of the Orthez region, and the French Antilles), but also from Spain, Portugal, Greece, Morocco, Senegal, etc. His Herbarium va digitized thanks to the e-ReColNat project, and is available online.

You can help enhance and promote the herbarium for its research value, by participating in the citizen science project "Les Herbonautes"! All the derails can be found here.

More information about the exhibition here