Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Montrueil, Desire Amahle Ferdinand

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Montrueil, Desire Amahle Ferdinand

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Edition of 1900. No confirmation of this person's existence outside of Appletons' and derived sources has as yet been located, but there is also no verifiable source which states the person is one of Appletons' fictitious entries. Use this information with extra caution. There is a spelling error in the title of one of the alleged literary works. There is also a mention of the subject visiting the New England states, but the United States did not become independent until 1776, and the states of New England were not known as such until 1787-1788, 1791 or 1820: all of this came well after the subject's date of death.

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MONTRUEIL, Desire Amahle Ferdinand (mong-truh'-ee), IPrench botanist, b. in Saulieu, Burgundy, in 1709 ; d. in St. Gratien, near Paris, in 1760. He was given in 1737 a mission to explore northern Canada, and in particular the territories around Hudson bay, and during six years collected many specimens of the Canadian flora, but while he was returning to France he was captured by the English and taken to London. He was released after the conclusion of peace in 1748, and vainly endeavored to recover his property, but the British authorities refused to surrender it, in spite of the protests of the Paris academy of science to the London royal society. Returning to this continent in 1750, he again explored northern Canada, and after forming a new collection visited the New England states, Philadelphia, and New- foundland during 1750-'4. In 1755 he was given a like mission to Santo Domingo, and passing after- ward to the continent, explored for two years the Guianas and Venezuela. He published "Voyage a, la bale d'Hudson " (Paris, 1749); "fitudes sur I'histoire naturelle du Canada ou Nouvelle France du Nord " (1754) ; " Expose du systeme vegetal de la vallee du Saint Laurent au Canada" (1755); " Histoire et description des plantes, medicinales propres a la Guiane " (1758) ; " and " Etudes sur la nature tropicale " (Paris, 1759).