Volume 1
Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61.
- British Museum (Natural History) Department of Botany
- Date:
- 1896-1901
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Catalogue of the African plants collected by Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch in 1853-61. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Some French extracts from these letters were contributed by Alph. de Candolle in Archiv. Scienc. Phys. et Nat., nouv. per., v. pp. 279, 280 • Geneva, July 1859. 14. “ Apontamentos phyto-geographicos sobre a flora da provincia de Angola na Africa equinoccial servindo de relatorio preliminar dcerca da exploraijao botanica da mesma provincia,” in Ann. Conselho Ultramar. No. 55 Dec. 1858, parte nao official, pp. 527—593 : Lisbon, 1859. 15. “ Extract from a letter, addressed to Sir William J. Hooker, on the botany of Benguela, Mossamedes, etc., in Western Africa,” dated 16 August 1860 from Loanda, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. pp. 182—187 : London, 24 May 1861. 16. “Lettre a M. Alph. de Candolle sur la vegetation du plateau de Huilla dans le Benguela,” dated 20 April 1861 from Lisbon, translated from German into French, in Archiv. Scienc. Phys. et Nat., nouv. per., xi., pp. 195—203 : Geneva, July 1861. Alph. de Candolle added some notes to the letter, and also obser- vations on the subject, on pages 193—195 and 204—206 of the same volume. 17. “ Cultura de algodao em Angola,” in Diario da Lisboa No. 230 : Lisbon, 1861. This was translated into English :— “ The cultivation of cotton in Angola,” translated by A. R. Saraiva from the original official pamphlet published at Lisbon by order of the Portuguese Government ; pp. 16 : London, 1862. [On the Oaks (carvalho) of Portugal: in Portuguese, 1861. See Trimen in Journ. Bot. 1873, p. 3 ; I have not seen any such paper.] 18. “Synopse explicativa das amostras de madeiras e drogas medicinaes e de outros objectos mormente ethnographieos colligidos na provincia de Angola enviados 4 expos^ao internacional de Londres em 1862 incluindo os que foram offerecidos ao gabinete Pharmaco- logico da escola medico-cirurgica de Lisboa ; ” pp. 56 : Lisbon, 1862. The preface, dated 20 Sept. 1862, explains that this is a separate edition, with some editorial alterations, of notes printed in the Gazeta medica of Lisbon, Nos. 14 to 17, in 1862. 19. “ Carta sobre a Pretrea zanguebarica e P. artemisicefolia Kl. in Gazeta medica de Lisboa, p. 474 : Lisbon, 1863.” 20. “ On a remarkable species of Cissus from the south of Benguella, with remarks on the Ampelideae of Angola and Benguella,.” in Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. pp. 75—77 : London, 3 Sept. 1864. 21. “Observations on the origin and the geographical distribution of the Gum Copal in Angola, West Tropical Africa,” in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. pp. 287—302: London, 14 June 1866. 22. “ The Pedras Negras of Pungo Andongo in Angola,” in Andr. Murray’s Journ. Trav. i. pp. 22—36, pi. 1 : London, Feb. 1868. 23. “Fungi Angolenses.” Part I. By Welwitsch and Currey, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi., part i., pp. 279—294, tt. 17—20: London, 1868. This is all that was ever published, although it was intended in a subsequent paper to add the Hymenomycetes. 24. “Sur l’aspect et le caractere de la region littorale ” (Note a), “ Les lacs d’ Angola ” (b), “ Influence des incendies sur la vegetation et sur l’aspect de la campagne ” (c), “ Sur une monnaie de la cote de Guinde fabriquee avec une coquille ” (e) ; in appendix to A. Morelet’s Mollusques terrestres et Jluviatiles, pp. 35—38, 47, 48 : Paris, 1868. 25. “ Sertum Angolense, sive stirpium quarundam novarum vel minus cognitarum in itinere per Angolam et Benguellam observatarum descriptio iconibus illustrata,” in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., part i. pp. 1—94, tt. 1—25 : London, 1869.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28120486_0001_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
