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description des ma ae de l’Amérique, et en particulier de 
Vile de Saint Dom e” (2 vols., 1720-"1); and “Journal des 
observations d’un ome au Pérou et au Chili” (5 vols., 1726~'8). 
[A-much garbled account, with changes of names and dates, 
and distortion of other facts, of the life of Louis Feuillée (1660- 
1732), of whom a more or less reliable account appears in its 
proper place in the same cyclopedia.] 
THIBAUDIN, Gaston Louis (tee-bo-dang), French explorer, 
b. in Dunkirk in 1727; d. in Lima, Peru, in 1796. He studied 
botany in Paris under Buffon, was employed afterward by the 
Academy of sciences, and at the request of that body was given 
by Louis XVI. in 1776 a mission to South America. His in- 
structions were to collect in Chili, Peru, and Cuba es of 
medicinal plants that could be naturalized in Fra He 
landed in Concepcion early in February, 1777; pani for 
months through the pampas and the mountains, and formed a 
rich herbarium. After visiting Santiago and the large cities, he 
went to Callao, making also a voyage to the island of Juan 
Fernandez. Toward the end of 1780 his herbarium numbered 
about 1,500 specimens, including many new ones, when he left 
for the West Indies, but, owing to the war that then raged in 
the Gulf of Mexico between France and England, he remained 
at Carthagena occupied in arranging his collections till the truce 
of 1782. Then he resumed his voyage and went to Havana, 
where he formed a nearly complete collection of the flora of the 
island. On his return to France in 1785 he was elected a corre- 
sponding member of the Academy of sciences, and that body 
undertook also the publication of his works. He had made 
many friends in Peru, and, feeling insecure in Paris during the 
revolution, he returned in 1792 to Lima, where he taught mathe- 
matics till his death. Thibaudin’s works include “Description 
des plantes recueillir dans un voyage au Pérou et au Chili i” 
2 vols., Paris, 1786); ‘‘ Mémoire sur la flore de l'ile de C uba”’ 
(1786) ;  Prodome de la flore du Chili avec herbier explicatif 
(4 vols., 1788); and “Prodome de la flore du Pérou avec her- 
bier explicatif’’ (4 vols., 1790). 
[Wholly fictitious.] 
VIVIER, Jacques du (v eev-yay), French eae ist, b. in 
Lorient, tance in 1720: d. there in 1793. studied botany 
in Paris, held an office in the laboratory of ae. Academy of sci- 
ences, and sailed as secretary of a commission that was sent to 
South America to measure an arc of the meridian under Charles 
