Henri Ernest Baillon (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi ɛʁnɛst bajɔ̃]; 30 November 1827 in Calais – 19 July 1895 in Paris) was a French botanist and physician.Baillon spent his academic life teaching natural history and publishing numerous works on botany.He was appointed to the Légion d'honneur in 1867, joined the Royal Society in 1894 and put together the Dictionnaire de botanique with Auguste Faguet's wood engravings.[1] The standard author abbreviation Baill.You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This biography related to medicine in France is a stub.