Hugh Algernon Weddell

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Vallée de San Juan del Oro by J. Denis
in Histoire naturelle des quinquinas

Hugh Algernon Weddell (22 June 1819 – 22 July 1877) was a

botanist, specialising in South American flora
.

Weddell was born at

François Louis de la Porte, comte de Castelnau to South America
, and he explored and collected botanical specimens on that continent for five years.

In May 1845, Weddell left the expedition which was then in Paraguay, and proceeded on a solitary journey which would take him into

Jardin des Plantes, and the plants were used to establish Cinchona forests in Java and elsewhere in the East Indies
.

In 1847, he married Manuela Bolognesi,[1] a resident of Arequipa. By March 1848, he had returned to Paris, leaving his wife in South America.

In Paris, Weddell was given the post of assistant naturalist at the museum. He held this office until 1853. Weddell made a second trip to South America in 1851. He returned to France and died on 22 July 1877 in Poitiers, while caring for his father.

Honours

He is commemorated in the names of a number of plants and animals, including the dusky-headed parakeet, Aratinga weddellii (Deville, 1851),[2] the Andean plant Diplostephium weddellii S.F.Blake (Compositae), the South American plant genus of Weddellina Tul.,[3] and the catfish Anadoras weddellii (Castelnau 1855).[4]

This botanist is denoted by the

author abbreviation Wedd. when citing a botanical name.[5]

Publications

  • Histoire naturelle des quinquinas (1849) - monograph describing the Cinchona plant
  • Additions à la flore de l’Amérique du Sud (1850) - which gives the history of his first trip to South America.
  • Voyage dans la Nord de la Bolivie (1853) - which describes his second trip to South America.
  • Chloris andina: essai d’une flore de la region alpine des Cordillères de l’Amérique du Sud (two volumes) (1855-1861) - it constitutes the sixth part of
    Francis de Castelnau
    ’s Expédition dans les parties centrals de l’Amérique du Sud (1850-1859).

References

  1. ^ Letter from Mrs. Weddell to the Society's president, 17 June 1891. In: Bulletin de la société académique d'agriculture de Poitiers, issue 307, 1891, p. 163.
  2. ^ Deville, E. (1851). "Note sur espèces nouvelles d'oiseaux provenant de l'expédition de M. Castelnau". Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée. 2nd ser. 3 (5): 209.
  3. ^ "Weddellina Tul. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  4. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Families ASPREDINIDAE, DORADIDAE, AUCHENIPTERIDAE, CRANOGLANIDIDAE and ICTALURIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  5. ISBN 1-84246-085-4
    .
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