Paul Antoine Sagot (1821–88)

French botanist and plant collector. Practising physician at Coulanges-sur-Yonne, 1848–53. Naval surgeon in French Guiana and the Antilles, 1854–9, and in Tenerife, 1864–5. Professor of natural sciences at the Ecole normale supérieure de Cluny, 1865–77. In Dijon, 1877–81 and Melun, 1881–8, where he was associated with the Paris Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle.