Adolphe Dureau de la Malle

Who was Adolphe Dureau de la Malle?

Adolphe Jules César Auguste Dureau de la Malle was a French geographer, naturalist, historian and artist. He was the son of the scholar and translator Jean-Baptiste Dureau de la Malle.

Dureau de la Malle published a number of works on the economy and topography of the classic countries, i.e. Italy and Carthage at the time of the Roman Empire:

On the population in ancient Italy

On agriculture, administration and units of measurement of the Romans

On the topography of Carthage.

As a naturalist, he published on the origins of the ceral crops,

De l'Origine et de la patrie des Céréales;

and, his most significant work, on vegetation succession.

Mémoire sur l'alternance ou sur ce problème: la succession alternative dans la reproduction des espèces végétales vivant en société, est-elle une loi générale de la nature. Annales des sciences naturelles, 15: 353-381. Rendered in English: Memoir on alternation or on alternative succession in the reproduction of plant species living in a community - is it a general law of nature?