Sebastián Vidal y Soler

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Sebastián Vidal
Máximo Laguna
Author abbrev. (botany)S.Vidal

Sebastián Vidal y Soler (Barcelona, April 1, 1842 – Manila, July 28, 1889) was a Spanish forester and botanist.

The standard author abbreviation S.Vidal is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

Sebastián Vidal and his lesser known brother, Domingo, studied at the Spanish forestry school. In the 1870s they both took up posts in the forestry service of the Philippines, which was a Spanish colonial possession.

Sebastián Vidal had a particular interest in

Malesian flora in general, collecting specimens, collaborating with other botanists, and publishing a number of works including Revision de Plantas Vasculares Filipinas (Manila 1886).[3]

In 1883 he was back in Europe and visited

herbaria there including that of Kew.[4]

Vidal served as director of the Botanical Garden of Manila from 1878 until his death in 1889 from cholera.[5] A statue of Vidal by Enric Clarasó was erected in the Garden, although it no longer survives.

Honours

In 1887 a Philippines Exposition was organised in Madrid. There was a section devoted to Geografía botánica del Archipiélago, su flora, la forestal y fauna ('Botanical geography of the Archipelago, its flora, forest and fauna'). Plants were exhibited at the newly constructed Palacio de Cristal in the Retiro Park. For his contribution, Vidal received the honour of entry into the Order of Isabella the Catholic.

Plant specimens

Although the herbarium in Manila was destroyed in a fire in 1897, some of Vidal's specimens of Philippine flora are preserved in Europe to this day, at Kew,

Benjamín Máximo Laguna and later scholars have worked on them.[7][5]

References

  1. Popular Science Monthly
  2. ^ International Plant Names Index.  S.Vidal.
  3. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland
    . Retrieved July 15, 2012.
  4. ^ Sebastián Vidal y Soler (1885). Phanerogamae Cumingianae Philippinarum: ó, Índice numèrico y catálogo sistemático de las plantas fanerogamas coleccionadas en Filipinas. M. Pérez Hijo. 217 pp.
  5. ^
    doi:10.3989/asclepio.1995.v47.i2.443
    .
  6. ^ Adiantum caudatum, Herbarium Catalogue. Kew.
  7. ^ "Vidal Herbarium". Real Jardín Botánico. Retrieved July 20, 2012.

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