Gaetano Leone (Gaetano) Durando
1811–92
Italian botanist and pharmacist. Studied medicine in Turin; joined the army in 1830. Studied botany at the Sorbonne, Paris, from 1838. Based in Nice and Paris, making many plant-collecting trips in France and Italy, before moving to Algiers in 1850. Explored and collected plants in Algeria. Worked as a hospital pharmacist in Algiers and gave free lectures on botany.
Source
JSTOR Global plants, http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000063643 (accessed 27 April 2017)
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