George Samuel Perrottet

After expeditions in Africa and Southeast Asia where he collected plant and animal specimens, he worked in French Pondicherry, India, where he established a botanical garden.

Perrottet worked as a gardener at the Jardin des plantes in Paris, and in 1819–21 served as a naturalist on an expedition commanded by Naval Captain Pierre Henri Philibert.

Perrottet's duties on the journey involved collecting plants in Réunion, Java, and the Philippines for re-plantation and cultivation in French Guiana.

From 1824 to 1829 he explored Senegambia, a region of West Africa between the Senegal and Gambia Rivers, while also serving as administrator of "Sénégalaise", a government outpost and trading company.

In 1832 Perrottet was appointed correspondent of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, and from 1834 to 1839 was assigned to the Jardin Botanique et d'Acclimatation (garden of botany) and acclimatisation of the French government in Pondicherry.