Clarke Abel
Clarke Abel | |
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Chief Medical Officer and Naturalist of the British Embassy to China | |
In office 1816–1817 | |
Monarch | George III |
Personal details | |
Born | 5 September 1780 |
Died | 24 November 1826 Cawnpore , India |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Surgeon, naturalist |
Known for | Accompanying Lord Amherst on his mission to China, being the first Western scientist to report the presence of the orangutan on the island of Sumatra |
Clarke Abel (5 September 1780 – 24 November 1826)[1] was a British surgeon and naturalist. The standard author abbreviation C. Abel is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]
He accompanied
In March 1819 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[5] He was also a member of the Geological Society.[6]
Abel was the first Western scientist to report the presence of the
Abel was also the first scientist to describe the Chiru or
In 1919, botanist Takenoshin Nakai published Abeliophyllum, which is a genus of shrubs from Korea, in the olive family, Oleaceae. It was named in Clarke Abel's honour.[9] Then in 2010, Landrein published Diabelia, which is a genus of shrubs from China and Korea, in the Caprifoliaceae family.[10]
References
- ^ Abel, Clarke (1789-1826) (in French). Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
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- ^ Abel, Clarke (1818). Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China: And of a Voyage to and from that Country, in the Years 1816 and 1817. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
- ^ Alice M. Coats, Garden Shrubs and Their Histories (1964) 1992, s.v. "Abelia".
- ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
- ^ According to the title page of his Narrative 1818.
- ISBN 978-0-801893-04-9. p. 1-2)
- ISBN 9783863471651. Retrieved 8 Sep 2016.
- ^ "Abeliophyllum Nakai | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- ^ "Diabelia Landrein | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
- Diana Wells, 100 Flowers and How They Got their Names, (Chapel Hill: Algonquin), 1997.
- Alice M. Coats, "The Plant Hunters", (London: Studio Vista Limited), 1969.