A herbarium of Abbé Ravaud online
Friday 19 May 2023
433 parts of this herbarium can be viewed on the collections portal
he herbariums known to Abbe Ravaud are currently preserved at the Natural History Museum of Grenoble in the botanical reserve.
Abbe Ravaud’s collection is made up of two herbaria. The largest includes different groups of plants (algae, moss, vascular plants) and fungi, for around 14,000 parts. The second, smaller one is a herbarium of plants collected in Villard-de-Lans around 1886.
This herbarium was held for a while by the Vercors Regional Natural Park, then by Mr. Jacques Lamoure, founder of Maison du Patrimoine de Villard-de-Lans, who then gave it to the Grenoble Museum in 1994. It includes 5 boxes including 4 repackaged for a total of 437 units.
This herbarium appears to have been slightly reworked in the late 19th-early 20th century with rewritten labels. Father Ravaud’s writing remains present, in “rough draft”, in pencil. To this day, we do not know the reason why this herbarium is independent of the main herbarium: herbarium given to someone by the abbot, project to create a Villard-de-Lans herbarium?
