Clark Abel ( born Clarke Abel ; 1789-1826) is a British physician , naturalist , botanist and zoologist , researcher of the flora and fauna of China , India , Indonesia .
| Clark Abel | |
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| English Clarke abel | |
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| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Bungay , Suffolk , UK |
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| A place of death | Kanpur , British India |
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| Scientific field | Botany |
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| Known as | researcher of flora and fauna of Asia |
| Awards and prizes | member of the Royal Society of London ( November 3, 1819 ) [d] [d] |
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation “ C.Abel ” . List of such taxa on the IPNI website Personal page on IPNI website |
Abel, as a naturalist of the expedition, accompanied Lord William Pitt Amherst during a trip to China in Beijing in 1816 . As a result of this trip, in 1818 , he wrote and published the story " Narrative of a Journey into the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from this country ", after which he became famous as a naturalist.
Abel is the first Western scientist to report the presence of an orangutan on the island of Sumatra .
In 1816, Abel first collected individual specimens and seeds of the plant, which now bears the name Abelia chinensis ( Abelia chinensis ). The British botanist Robert Brown in 1818 named him the genus of plants discovered by Abel in China: Abelia of the Linnaeaceae family .
Content
- 1 Publications
- 2 notes
- 3 Literature
- 4 References
Publications
- Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China and of a Voyage to and from that Country, in 1816 and 1817 . - London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 .-- 420 p.
Notes
Literature
- Abel Clark // Encyclopedic Dictionary compiled by Russian scientists and writers. St. Petersburg, 1861.