Sebastián Vidal y Soler

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Vidal and the second or maternal family name is Soler.
Sebastián Vidal

Statue of Vidal in Manila
Born 1842
Barcelona
Died 1889[1]
Manila
Residence Spain, The Philippines
Fields Botany, Forestry
Academic advisors Máximo Laguna
Author abbrev. (botany) S.Vidal

Sebastián Vidal y Soler (1842-1889) was a Spanish forester and botanist.

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 woody plants, but studied 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 in Europe and visited herbaria there including Kew.[4] Although the herbarium in Manila was destroyed in a fire at the end of the nineteenth century, some of Vidal's specimens of Philippine flora are preserved in Europe to this day, at Kew[5] and notably at Madrid's Real Jardín Botánico, where, since Vidal's death Benjamín Máximo Laguna and later scholars have worked on them.[6][7] Vidal served as director of the Botanical Garden of Manila from 1878 until his death in 1889 from cholera.[7] A statue of Vidal by Enric Clarasó was erected in the Garden, although it no longer survives.

References

  1. ↑ Obituary: Señor Don Sebastian Vidal, Popular Science Monthly
  2. ↑ "Author Query for 'S.Vidal'". International Plant Names Index.
  3. ↑ "Vidal y Soler, Sebastian". Cyclopedia of Malesian Collectors. 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. ↑ Adiantum caudatum, Herbarium Catalogue. Kew.
  6. ↑ "Vidal Herbarium". Real Jardín Botánico. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Blanco Fernández de Caleya, Paloma. "Los herbarios de las expediciones científicas españolas al nuevo mundo". Asclepio-Vol.XLVII-2-1995.

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