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Silva, José Gomes da

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

career:

Physician, pupil of Julio Henriques; Head of the Health Department, respectively in Timor (at Dilly) and at Macao (China). He studied the flora medico.

Author of an enumeration of Timor plants.¹

collections:

Herb. Bot. Inst. Univ. Coimbra [COI]: c. 260 specim. from Port. Timor (coll. 1884) (identified by himself and not seen by any other botanist after that), and plants from Macau.² Evidently some dupl. in Herb. Berlin [B].³

literature:

(1) ‘Catálogo de plantas de Macau e Timor’ (Bol. da Prov. de Macau e Timor, nos 21-26,1887; republished in Bol. Sanit. da Prov. de Timor, 1924, p. 62-88).
(2) Plants from Macau published by J. Henriques in Bol. da Socied. Broter. ser. 1, vol. 2, 1883 (1884), p. 164-168 and l.c. vol. 3, 1884 (1885), p. 141-154.
(3) cf. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 50, Suppl. 1914, p. 180.

biographical data:

Bol. da Socied. Broter. ser. 1, vol. 3, 1884 (1885), p. 233; Broteria 3, 1904, p. 310; information in litt. by Prof. Dr A. Fernandes at Coimbra.

	Career Collections Literature Biographical data
	Silva, José Gomes da
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)
	career: Physician, pupil of Julio Henriques; Head of the Health Department, respectively in Timor (at Dilly) and at Macao (China). He studied the flora medico. Author of an enumeration of Timor plants.¹
	collections: Herb. Bot. Inst. Univ. Coimbra [COI]: c. 260 specim. from Port. Timor (coll. 1884) (identified by himself and not seen by any other botanist after that), and plants from Macau.² Evidently some dupl. in Herb. Berlin [B].³
	literature: (1) ‘Catálogo de plantas de Macau e Timor’ (Bol. da Prov. de Macau e Timor, nos 21-26,1887; republished in Bol. Sanit. da Prov. de Timor, 1924, p. 62-88). (2) Plants from Macau published by J. Henriques in Bol. da Socied. Broter. ser. 1, vol. 2, 1883 (1884), p. 164-168 and l.c. vol. 3, 1884 (1885), p. 141-154. (3) cf. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 50, Suppl. 1914, p. 180.
	biographical data: Bol. da Socied. Broter. ser. 1, vol. 3, 1884 (1885), p. 233; Broteria 3, 1904, p. 310; information in litt. by Prof. Dr A. Fernandes at Coimbra.