Genus Courbonia
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For Alfred Courbon (1829–1895), French professor at the medical school of Toulouse and first-class surgeon in the French navy expedition which, on the orders of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, emperor of France, explored the Red Sea. Courbon investigated the medical geography, taking special notice of the diseases peculiar to each district, as well as of the relative frequency, severity, differences, etc., of the diseases common to various countries. He collected plants in Eritrea in 1859–1860 and authored two works relating to the expedition – a book, Flore de l’île de Dissée (Mer Rouge) (1863) and a paper, Observations Topographiques et Medicales Recuillies dans le Voyage a l’Isthme de Suez, sur le Littoral de la Mer Rouge et en Abyssinie (1861).