Philibert Commerson was a French naturalist, born in Chatillon-les-Dombes in 1727, best known for sailing with Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage around the world from 1766 to 1769. He studied at Montpellier, practised for a time as a physician and corresponded with Carl Linnaeus, who encouraged him to study Mediterranean fish. He made a botanical garden at his home in 1758 and was recommended as the expedition naturalist by the Paris Academy of Sciences. On the voyage he observed the people of Tahiti, collected and described plants, including the genus Bougainvillea, and noted a dolphin now called Commerson's dolphin. He stayed on at Mauritius to botanise there and on Madagascar, and died in 1773 before the Academy elected him a fellow botanist.
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He studied in Montpellier, and for a time was a practicing physician.
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Commerson also studied and collected plants wherever the expedition stopped
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Commerson also studied and collected plants wherever the expedition stopped
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