Nestor Léon Marchand


Nestor Léon Marchand was a French medical doctor, pharmacist, and botanist. He is known for his studies of the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae.
He studied in Tours and Paris, subsequently earning a bachelor of science degree, a doctorate in medicine, a first-class license in pharmacy and a doctorate in natural sciences. He later became a professor of botanical cryptogamy at the École supérieure de pharmacie in Paris. He was mayor of Thiais, France from 1881 to 1887.

Selected publications