French naturalist (1778-1856).
Pierre Auguste Joseph Drapiez (28 August 1778, Lille – 28 December 1856, Brussels) was a Belgian naturalist. The standard author abbreviation Drapiez is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. He founded with the French botanist Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778–1846) and the Belgian chemist Jean-Baptiste Van Mons (1765–1842) the Annales générales de Sciences physiques consacrées aux Sciences naturelles published in six volumes between 1819 and 1822. His Dictionnaire portatif de chimie, de minéralogie et de géologie, en rapport avec l'état présent de c