Bernard de Jussieu was born in Lyon. He took a medical degree at Montpellier and began practice in 1720,[1] but finding the work uncongenial he gladly accepted his brother`s invitation to Paris in 1722, when he succeeded Sebastien Vaillant 1669–1722 as sub-demonstrator of plants in the Jardin des Plantes. In 1725 he brought out a new edition of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort`s Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs de Paris, 2 vols., which was afterwards translated into English by John Martyn, the original work being incomplete. In the same year he was admitted into the French Academy of Sciences, and communicated several papers to that body.

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