1992 PW1. Discovered August 8 by E. W. Elst and C. Pollas at Caussols

Named for Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), French biologist, renowned for his idea that acquired traits are inheritable. In 1778, after nine years of botanical field study, he published his three-volume Flore française. As a result of his urging, the Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle was founded in 1793. (MPC 30801)

1990 SL9. Discovered 1990 September 22 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.

Named in memory of the great Swedish botanist Carl von Linné (1707-1778). At an early age, Linnaeus developed a great love for flowers and herbs. This led him to develop the first major systematic system of nomenclature for the flora, and this became the internationnaly accepted standard. He organized the large-scale collection of botanical specimens in far-away countries and had a lively correspondence with his contemporaries. (MPC 30801)

1991 RP11. Discovered 1991 September 4 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.

Named for the French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788). In 1749 he started his project Histoire naturelle, an immense work of 36 volumes on nature, in which he treated in succession the history of the formation of the earth, the life of animals and plants and the world of minerals. In 1779 the work was completed with his famous Epoques de la nature. Buffon insisted on building his theories on facts, rather than on hypotheses, and he made experience the clue for scientific investigation. His elegant style raised writing on science to the ranks of great literature. (MPC 31025)

1992 HZ3. Discovered 1992 Apr. 23 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.

Named for Carolus Clusius (Charles de l’Escluse; 1526-1609), a Flemish botanist well-known for his catalogue, published in Antwerp in 1576, of line drawings of more than 200 plants he had studied in southern France, Portugal and Spain. His system of classification proposed the idea of natural families. The Clusiaceae, a family of plants and trees, was named after him. It is said that he introduced the tulip into Holland. (MPC 34352)

1992 RU3. Discovered 1992 Sep. 02 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.

Named for Ernest « Chinese » Wilson (1876-1930) a prolific hunter of plants, who introduced more than 1000 new plants from China into Europe. Because of him Europeans have the Azalea, Hortensia and Magnolia wilsonii. He lost his leg while hunting the lily Lilium regale. (MPC 34352)

1998 OS10. Discovered 1998 Jul. 26 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.

Named in memory of Bernard (1699-1777), Joseph (1704-1779), Antoine-Laurent (1748-1836) and Adrien-Laurent-Henri (1797-1853) de Jussieu, a family of French botanists. Bernard founded a method of plant classification based on the anatomical characters of the plant embryo, while Antoine-Laurent laid down the principles for a natural system of plant classification. Adrien-Laurent-Henri wrote a treatise on botany, and Joseph is well known from the voyage to Peru with de la Condamine to measure a meridional arc; Joseph remained in South America for 35 years, returning to Paris in 1771, when he introduced the common ‘’garden heliotrope’’ into Europe. (MPC may 99)

1994 PO7. Discovered 1994 Aug. 10 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.

Named in memory of the German botanist and physician Leonhard Fuchs (1501-1566), whose botanical work {\it Historia Stirpium commentarii insignes](1542) remains a landmark in the organized presentation of botanical observations. The book contains beautiful woodcuts and accurate descriptions (and a glossary) of more than 550 plants, most of them of medical use. His name is also commemorated in the Fuchsia genus of flowering plants. (MPC may 99)