{"id":2656,"date":"2025-04-16T10:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parastatal1.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/?page_id=2656"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:32:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:32:02","slug":"avenue-louis-bouton-1799-1878","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/?page_id=2656","title":{"rendered":"Avenue Louis Bouton (1799-1878)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2656\" class=\"elementor elementor-2656\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-abf7118 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"abf7118\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-388a657 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"388a657\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c2d218a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c2d218a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Louis Bouton was a botanist born in Port Louis in 1800. He can be considered as the second most well-known botanist in Mauritius during the 19th century after Wencelas Bojer.<\/p><p>In 1826, Louis Bouton and Julien Desjardins made a request to Governor Sir Lowry Cole to set up a museum in Mauritius. On 14 October 1842, the Desjardins Museum was opened to the public, in a wing of the old Royal College in Port Louis, where it remained for 42 years.<\/p><p>Along with around thirty other naturalists, Louis Bouton founded The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius under the name of Natural History Society of Mauritius in 1829.\u00a0<\/p><p>Bouton was also a teacher and a keen believer on the usefulness of botany in the development of the colony. He published widely on the Society, botany and the economic forestry of the island.<\/p><p>Several plant species are named after Louis Bouton, notably the Trochetia boutoniana<em>; <\/em>floral emblem of the Republic of Mauritius since 1992.<br \/>The Bouton skink <em>Cryptoblepharus buttonii ;<\/em> a newly identified endemic lizard species also bears his name:Louis Bouton became the Director of the Desjardins Museum in 1856. He worked there till his death at the age of 79.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Bouton was a botanist born in Port Louis in 1800. He can be considered as the second most well-known botanist in Mauritius during the 19th century after Wencelas Bojer. In 1826, Louis Bouton and Julien Desjardins made a request to Governor Sir Lowry Cole to set up a museum in Mauritius. On 14 October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2656","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2732,"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2656\/revisions\/2732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}