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LYON (RHONE) (2) 
JARDIN BoTANIQUE DE L’EcOLE VETERINAIRE 
Established: 1763, by La Tourrette at the Guillotiére. 
Dwectors: 
1. L’Abbé Frangois Rozier (1765-1766) - 
2. Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Rest-Maupas (?) 
3. Jacques-Marie Hénon (1780-1809) 
Plantations: Systematic after Tournefort. Note: Transferred 
in November 1796 to the Claustral des Deux-Amants, quai Pierre- 
Seize. Enlarged in 1802 by the neighboring Claustral des Corde- 
liers de ?Observance. 
LYON (RHONE) (3) 
JARDIN BoTANIQUE DU PaRCc DE LA TETE D’OR 
Established: 1773. Area: The Park, 114 hectares; the Garden, 
hectares. 
Note: This garden was successively located (1) at Brotteaux 
near the Loge de la Parfaite-Harmonie (1773-1774), but was not 
completed there; (2) Clos de la Déserte, below la place Sathonay 
(1795-1857) ; (3) Pare de la Téte d’Or since 1857. (For further 
data on its organization consult Soc. Bot. Fr. 1876 session. Pages 
c and ci.) The Garden was devastated by a terrible hurricane 
on August 4, 1853. 
Directors: 
1. Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert (1795-1799, 1804-1808). Founder 
of the Garden at the Clos de la Déserte. 
2. Gaetano Nicodémi or Nicodémo (Dec. 27, 1799-1804) 
3. Gaspard Dejean, or de Jean de Saint-Marcel (March 21, 
1808-1819) 
4, Jean-Baptiste Balbis (1819-August 20, 1830) 
5. Louis-Henry Latil de Thimécourt (July 26-August 18, 
1830). Roffavier (August 19-21, 1830). Three days, 
only, in office. The Preface of the Flora of Balbis is 
signed “ Roffavier ” 
. Nicolas-Charles Seringe (August 24, 1830-September 29, 
1858) 
Gustave Bonnet (Director-General of the Parc de la Téte- 
d’Or, including the Jardin Botanique), (December 1858— 
1870) 
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