Marietta Hannon Rousseau
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Marietta Hannon Rousseau, also known as Mariette Rousseau, was a Belgian mycologist and taxonomist specializing in cryptogamic plants and fungi. She published several works on fungi from 1879 to 1905
Mariette Rousseau
Adrien de Gerlache
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Baron Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery was a Belgian officer in the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99.
Marietta Hannon Rousseau
…they discovered several new species. They also produced a report in 1905 on the fungi of Antarctica collected by the 1897–99 Belgian expedition led by Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery. Beginning in 1908, Marietta's main focus was on curating the mushroom collection at the Jardin Botanique in Brussels. There, she also put together…
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Adrien de Gerlache in 1897
The Belgica anchored near Mount William, on Anvers Island
Monument to Adrien de Gerlache in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina.