Marie Clément Gaston Gautier


Marie Clément Gaston Gautier was a French botanist and agriculturalist.
Gautier was born in Narbonne, and collected plants in the vicinity of his native city as well as in the Corbières Massif and the Pyrenees. These specimens became an important part of an impressive herbarium that he had amassed during his career. As an agriculturalist, he was at the forefront of issues that included swamp drainage, reclamation of barren land, and modern viticultural practices.
Among his published works were Catalogue raisonné de la flore des Pyrénées-Orientales and Catalogue de la flore des Corbières. Other noted works by Gautier include: