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The main events in the life of Friedrich Welwitsch are discussed and his achievements evaluated.SUMMARYA hundred years ago Friedrich Welwitsch, the naturalist‐explorer whose name is commemorated in the monotypic genusWelwitschia, died in London. The collection he made in Angola was acclaimed, even 20 years after his death, as the best ever to have come out of tropical Africa, and to this day it remains of unique value.As well as a contentious spirit Welwitsch had an inflexible devotion to any task he undertook. The Portuguese Government did not clearly comprehend the nature of the investigation it should have invited Welwitsch to carry out in Angola or the character of the man himself. The consequent misunderstanding, discord and severance between Welwitsch and the Government sprang partly from their divergence of purpose and partly from an earlier pattern set between Welwitsch and his father.But, disappointed as it was with Welwitsch's achievement, the Portuguese Government recognized the scientific value of his collections and successfully contested his attempt to bequeath the best part of them to the British Museum. An action in the English High Court between the King of Portugal and the executors of Welwitsch's will followed, and became tangled with extraneous animosities between the British Museum and Kew before it was finally settled in a compromise.Welwitsch's life, and especially his quarrel with the Portuguese Government, foreshadowed many disputes of a now unfortunately familiar kind between governments and the scientists they employ. And the nature of his achievement, both its success and its failure, provokes thought on problems of contemporary importance to the advancement of developing countrie

ISSN:0024-4066    

DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1972.tb00695.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

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An account is given of the Welwitsch manuscripts and correspondence in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History), the Linnean Society of London and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

ISSN:0024-4066    

DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1972.tb00696.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

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Sydney Parkinson, aged 18, was Sir Joseph Banks' private assistant and artist on Captain Cook's first voyage around the world. Parkinson died on the voyage. Among his effects delivered to his brother Stanfield were drawings and notes which the latter published as a journal. Included in it is a chapter on the economic plants of Tahiti, and most of them are given scientific names, some of which were new. In 1941 Fosberg adopted two of them to form names which were new combinations underArtocarpus, andInocarpus. The writer now indicates that Parkinson's names of 1773 were mononomials, hence invalid, but that in the German edition of 1774, edited by Herr “Z”, the names are valid binomials. For the two plants mentioned, the authorship of the combinations is revi

ISSN:0024-4066    

DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1972.tb00697.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0024-4066    

DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1972.tb00698.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0024-4066    

DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1972.tb00699.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1972

数据来源: WILEY