Vicente Cervantes
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Vicente (Vincente) de Cervantes (b. 1755, d. 1829) was a notable Spanish and Mexican physician and botanist.
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[edit] Background
Don Vicente Cervantes was a contemporary of Martín Sessé y Lacasta and corresponded with Jean-Louis Berlandier, the French naturalist who botanized in Mexico and Texas as part of the Mexican Boundary Commission. He was also the first Professor of Botany in New Spain, at the Royal Botanic Garden in Mexico City.
It is after him that the magnificent Odontoglossum orchid, the "Cervantes odontoglot" (Odontoglossum cervantesii), is named.
[edit] Publications
- Vicente de Cervantes, Castilla, in Gazeta de Literatura de México 1794, Suppl.: 7. (2 July 1794)
[edit] References
- "Botánica," Enciclopedia de México, v. 2. Mexico City: 1987.
