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.
Source
DSB
Further Reading
For more information see:
https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/gaston-de-saporta
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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