The habit of French editors of omitting authors' initials has misled compilers of later works into mistakenly assuming that the Figuier quoted in early 19th-century literature on the chemistry of gold was Guillaume-Louis Figuier of Montpellier (1819-1895). This article shows that the authors quoted were his father, uncle, and elder brother
Ambix Vol. 26 (1979), p. 221-223