WHO WAS STAPHORST, COLLECTOR OF GUINEA PLANTS?
1976; Wiley; Volume: 25; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1220424
ISSN1996-8175
Autores Tópico(s)Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
ResumoSummary The Sloane Herbarium includes six West African plant specimens collected by Nicholas Staphorst, son of Nicolaus Staphorst, director of the Chemical Laboratory of the Royal College of Physicians in London. The father was an immigrant from Hamburg, who belonged to an important German family from Staphorst in Low‐Saxon. Nicholas, the son, travelled to South Africa, West India and West Africa where he attempted to collect plants for Petiver. He failed in South Africa and in western India he lost his collection during embarkation, and apparently succeeded in collecting only the six specimens in West Africa, probably in 1701.
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