Bernard de Jussieu (1699-1777) was a French naturalist and brother of Anthoine de Jussieu. He earned his MD at Montpellier and practised medicine from 1720. Jussieu joined the Jardin des Plantes in 1722, edited a new edition of Tournefort’s ‘Histoire des plantes’ in 1725, and was admitted into the Academie des sciences in the same year.
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