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Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta

1823–96

French palaeobotanist. Specialist on the Tertiary and Jurassic flora. Wrote extensively on the relationship between climatic change and palaeobotany.

Further Reading

For more information see:

https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/gaston-de-saporta

Source

DSB

Bibliography

DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.

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