Reaumur
RENÉ ANTOINE FER- CHAULT DE, a French physicist and naturalist; born in La Rochelle, France, Feb. 28, 1683. He went to Paris in 1703; in 1708 was chosen a member of the Academy of Sciences; and for nearly 50 years continued to be one of its most active members. As a natural philosopher he is celebrated for the invention of an improved thermometer, which he made known in 1873, but his greatest work is "Natural History of Insects" (6 vols.). He died in Maine, France, Oct. 18, 1757.
REAUMURIACEÆ, in botany, reaumuriads; an order of hypogynous exogens, alliance Guttiferales; small shrubs, with fleshy scale-like exstipulate leaves, covered with resinous sunk glands.
From the coasts of the Mediterranean and the salt plains of temperate Asia.
Known genera three, species four.