[1] His meticulous methodology led to a prolific collection of plants, which included 200,000 specimens of 4,000 distinct species of flora.
[1] Much of Delavay's collections that were sent to the Paris Museum of Natural History were processed by Adrien René Franchet.
Franchet was a trained botanist focused on the authorship of taxonomy for the plant specimens arriving at the museum.
[3] Franchet primarily worked on the taxonomy of the collections from French missionaries in China and Japan, including Delavay, David, Paul Guillaume Farges, and Jean-André Soulié.
Plantes de Chine recueillies au Yun-nan par l'abbé Delavay.