Donaciano Cano y Alcacio
Donaciano Cano y Alcacio was a Mexican physician and naturalist and, as the latter, one of the most important entomologists of his time.
At the Escuela Nacional de Medicina he was in 1885 under the famous herpetologists Alfredo Duges (1826-1910) as a doctoral supervisor with a dissertation on the sand flea Tunga penetrans doctorate . In the same year he described the common spider mite (today Latin : Tetranychus urticae ) under the synonym Tetranychus dugesii . In 1894 he wrote the first description of the weevil Anthonomus eugenii , of which he had collected specimens in the state of Guanajuato . He carried out other collections on flora and fauna in the state of San Luis Potosí .
Cano y Alcacio, who was temporarily employed at the Instituto Médico Nacional , was a member of the Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural and an advocate of Darwin's theory of evolution . In a foreword to Dugès' Elementos de zoología , published in 1884, he wrote, for example, together with Alfonso L. Herrera (1868–1942) and José Ramírez:
- “Now that all biological problems are so closely related to the question of the ancestry of living things, it is essential to introduce students to the principles of zoological philosophy in order to show them the laws that Darwin discovered in his quest, a theory of living things understandable. "
Publications (selection)
- La nigua (Rhyncoprion penetrans Oken) . Dissertation, Impr. De Francisco Díaz de León, Mexico City , 1885.
- Una nueva especie de arña mexicana, Tetranychus dugesii . In: Naturaleza , Series 1a, Volume 7, 1885, pages 197-200.
- La nigua (Rhyncoprion penetrans, Oken ) . In: Naturaleza , Series 1a, Volume 7, 1886, pages 233-242.
- El barrenillo . In: Naturaleza , Series 2, Volume 2, 1894, pages 377-379.
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ University of Kansas Science Bulletin , Vol. 38, Part 2, Mar. 20, 1958, p. 1247.
- ↑ Thomas F. Glick ( Ed. ): The comparative reception of Darwinism . University of Chicago Press , Chicago (1974), 365.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cano y Alcacio, Donaciano |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th century or 20th century |