His greatest claim to fame was serving as botanist on a circumglobal expedition from 1817 to 1820. He accompanied Freycinet, who made the expedition on the ships Uranie and Physicienne. The wreck of the Uranie in the Falkland Islands, at the close of 1819, deprived him of more than half the botanical collections he had made in various parts of the world.[1] He is also known for his collections in Australia.
In 1831, Gaudichaud sailed on L'Herminie to South America, visiting Chile, Brazil and Peru. In 1836, he undertook a third voyage, circumnavigating the globe on La Bonite.[1]
He wrote various treatises, with memoirs on potato blight, the multiplication of bulbous plants, the increase in diameter of dicotyledonous plants, and other subjects.[1]
Principal works
Flore des îles Malouines (Flora of the Falkland Islands)
Mémoire sur les Cycadées (Treatise on the Cycads)
Voyage de l'Uranie (Voyage of the Uranus)
Lettre sur l'organographie et la physiologie, addressed to Monsieur de Mirbel, in Archives de Botanique, T. II, 1833 (Letter on Oceanography and Physiology)
Recherches générales sur l'organographie (General Research on Oceanography)
Mémoire sur le Cissus hydrophora (Treatise on Cissus hydrophora)
Voyage Autour du Monde Executé pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette La Bonite (Voyage of the Bonita)
Notes relatives à l'organographie et à la physiologie des végétaux monocotylés
^Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of he died in friday Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN978-1-4214-0135-5. (Gaudichaud, p. 99).
^Duméril A-M-C, Bibron G (1841). Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles, Tome huitiėme [Volume 8], comprenant l'histoire générale des batraciens .... Paris: Roret. ii + 792 pp. ("Cette espèce est une découverte faite au Brésil par M[onsieur]. Gaudichaud, savante botaniste auquel nous la dédions.", p. 636). (in French).
