Vicente (Vincente) de Cervantes (1755-1829) was a notable Spanish and Mexican physician and botanist. Year 1755 ( MDCCLV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or For the game see 1829 (board game. Year 1829 ( MDCCCXXIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Botany, plant science(s, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of Biology and is the scientific study of plant Life
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Background
Don Vicente Cervantes was a contemporary of Martín Sessé y Lacasta and corresponded with Jean-Louis Berlandier, the French naturalist who botanized in Mexico and Texas as part of the Mexican Boundary Commission. Martín Sessé y Lacasta (1751 in Baraguás, Aragon, Spain &mdash October 4, 1808, Madrid) was a Spanish botanist who relocated Jean-Louis Berlandier (ca 1805 &ndash 1851 was a French naturalist, physician and Anthropologist. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. He was also the first Professor of Botany in New Spain, at the Royal Botanic Garden in Mexico City. The Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España was a name given to the Viceroy -ruled territories of the Spanish Empire in North America,
It is after him that the magnificent Odontoglossum orchid, the "Cervantes odontoglot" (Odontoglossum cervantesii), is named. Odontoglossum, first named in 1816 by Karl Sigismund Kunth, is a Genus of about 100 Orchids The scientific name is derived from the Greek words
Juan Diego del Castillo (d. Juan Diego del Castillo (d 1793 was a Spanish pharmacist and Botanist who joined Vicente Cervantes in Mexico. 1793) joined Cervantes in Mexico. Year 1793 ( MDCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Del Castillo left a large sum of money towards the printing of their projected book Flora Mexicana. Cervantes named the genus Castilla after him. A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic Castilla (sometimes incorrectly spelled Castilloa) is a tree Genus belonging to the family Moraceae found native in Central America [1]
Notes
- ^ M. J. R. Loadman, Tears of the Tree: The Story of Rubber –a Modern Marvel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 25.
Publications
- Vicente de Cervantes, Castilla, in Gazeta de Literatura de México 1794, Suppl. Castilla (sometimes incorrectly spelled Castilloa) is a tree Genus belonging to the family Moraceae found native in Central America : 7. (2 July 1794)
References
- "La realidad se ha convertido en una materia" Enciclopedia de México, v. 2. Mexico City: 1987.
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