Domingo Bello y Espinosa

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Domingo Bello y Espinosa (born July 31, 1817 in La Laguna , Tenerife , Canary Islands , † January 21, 1884 ibid) was a Spanish botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Bello ".

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After studying law at the Universidad de San Fernando on Tenerife, which was closed in 1845 , he held the office of mayor of La Laguna for a short time at the end of 1842 . Between 1845 and 1847 he was secretary of the College of Lawyers in Santa Cruz de Tenerife . In 1850 Bello y Espinosa emigrated to Puerto Rico , where he settled in Mayagüez and opened a successful law firm. In his spare time, Bello y Espinosa did botanical studies, particularly in western Puerto Rico. He became a close friend of Consul Carl Wilhelm Leopold Krug , with whom he worked in later years. In 1878 he returned to Tenerife, where he died in 1884. In 1880 he visited the International Fisheries Exhibition in Berlin and studied the botanical collection in Berlin-Dahlem .

Bello y Espinosa's best-known work is Apuntes para la Flora de Puerto-Rico , published in two volumes in 1881 and 1883 and containing a checklist of 964 species. It is based on the Bello y Espinosas and Krugs collections. However, Krug's influential contribution is not recognized in any section of the work. Bello y Espinosas dedicated a second book entitled Un Jardin Canario to the Canarian flora. Bello y Espinosa did not create a herbarium. His Canarian plant collection is in the Herbarium Krug in the Botanical Museum in Berlin , his Puerto Rican one was destroyed by insects.

literature

  • Ignaz Urban : Symbolae Antillanae, see Fundamenta florae Indiae Occidentalis , 1898, p. 21

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SURNAME Bello y Espinosa, Domingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish botanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH La Laguna , Tenerife , Canary Islands
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1884
Place of death La Laguna , Tenerife , Canary Islands