Julien Reverchon

Julien Reverchon (3 August 1837 – 30 December 1905) was a French botanist.

Childhood
He was the son of Maximilian and Florine Jacques Reverchon.

Julien, who displayed an interest in the natural world at a young age, had already amassed a collection of nearly 2,000 species of plants with his brother.

Arrival in the United States
His father was a follower of the ideas of Charles Fourier, and he decided to join Victor Prosper Considerant in La Réunion, near Dallas in its construction of a phalanstère.

The family arrived at La Réunion in December of 1856 and learned of the failure of the Fourier colony. Jacques Reverchon then bought a small farm in the vicinity.

Career
Julien began to study the local flora.

After abandoning botany for a few years, he started collecting plants in 1869, when he made an expedition to collect fossils with Jacob Boll in West Texas. With subsequent collections, he contributed to the production of noted floras by Asa Gray and Charles Sprague Sargent and the enrichment of many American collections. He taught botany at the end of his life in Dallas. At the time of his death, more than 2,600 species were cultured in his farm, and he possessed a rich herbarium of 20,000 specimens.

At the end of his life, he taught botany at Baylor University College of Medicine and Pharmacy in Dallas.

Family life
He married Marie Henri on 24 July 1864. They had two sons who died of typhoid fever in 1884. He is the brother of.

Work
His farm is kept at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis.

Legacy
The city of Dallas named Reverchon Park in his honor.