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WHO WAS STAPHORST, COLLECTOR OF GUINEA PLANTS?
Author(s) -
Zeven A. C.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1220424
Subject(s) - herbarium , new guinea , german , immigration , geography , west germany , ancient history , chemical laboratory , archaeology , ethnology , history , biology , botany , medicine , economic history , risk analysis (engineering) , chemical safety
Summary The Sloane Herbarium includes six West African plant specimens collected by Nicholas Staphorst, son of Nicolaus Staphorst, director of the Chemical Laboratory of the Royal College of Physicians in London. The father was an immigrant from Hamburg, who belonged to an important German family from Staphorst in Low‐Saxon. Nicholas, the son, travelled to South Africa, West India and West Africa where he attempted to collect plants for Petiver. He failed in South Africa and in western India he lost his collection during embarkation, and apparently succeeded in collecting only the six specimens in West Africa, probably in 1701.