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- 1. Joseph D. Hooker’s collections made in the Cape Verde Islands (1839) Maria de Lourdes Rico Arce (UK), Javier Francisco-Ortega (USA), Arnoldo Santos (Spain), Maria Cristina Duarte, Maria Romeiras (Portugal) and Chiara Nepi (Italy)
- 2. Our Vision: Making data available for Kew’s digital content, and an academic paper to be published. Why the Cape Verde Island Collections? The sparse information on Hooker’s specimens, species conservation, historical collections, data repatriation and digital content. What was our aim in the Kew Herbarium, Library and Archives? To find and study the unique collections of this part of Hooker’s Antarctic expedition. What and where we searched and studied: herbarium specimens, archives, illustrations, Economic Botany artefacts. Summary of what’s available Future work ... Joseph D. Hooker’s collections made in the Cape Verde Islands (1839)
- 3. Historical collections P.B. Webb (1849) W.J. Hooker (1843) Species conservation Data repatriation and digital content
- 4. • Antarctic voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and H.M.S. Terror (1839-1843) • Under the command of Captain James Clark Ross • J.D. Hooker: Surgeon and the youngest crew member (22 years old) thedipcircle.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/hms-erebus-and-terror-in-the-antarctic1.jpg HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in the Antarctic
- 5. The Macaronesian Islands • Four Atlantic Archipelagos • Only one of them is in the tropics: Cape Verde Islands • Unique flora that some authors consider to be a distinct phytogeographical region CourtesyofOonaRäisänen Tropic of Cancer
- 6. The nine pre-19th century botanical expeditions to the Cape Verde Islands (1683–1792) Seven British expeditions: • Dampier (four visits) • Robertson • Forster & Forster • Staunton One Dutch expedition: • Van der Stel One Portuguese expedition: • Feijó None of these expeditions, except Feijó’s, directly targeted the Cape Verde Islands
- 7. Botanist Nationality Country that organized the expedition Expedition aim Month and year in Cape Verde Islands Notes: Organizer /Visited islands 1. Christen Smith (1785- 1816) Norway Britain Congo River geography April 1816 Lords Commissioners of Admiralty / Santiago 2. John Forbes (c. 1789-1823) Britain Britain Eastern Africa and Arabia flora March-April 1822 Royal Horticultural Society of London / Sal, Santo Antão , São Nicolau, São Vicente, and Santiago 3. Thomas Bowdich (1791- 1824) Britain NA Gambia River October? – November? 1823 Thomas Bowdich / Boavista, Santiago 4. Charles Darwin (1809- 1882) Britain Britain Global Circumnavigation January 1832 Lords Commissioners of Admiralty / Santiago 5. Samuel Brunner (1790- 1844) Switzerland NA West Africa flora June 1838 Samuel Brunner / Brava, Boavista, Sal, Santiago 6. Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) Britain Britain Antarctic (South Magnetic Pole) 13-20 November 1839 Lords Commissioners of Admiralty / Santiago 7. Theodore Vogel (1812 – 1841) Germany Britain Campaign against slavery June 1841 Society the Civilization of Africa / São Vicente, Santo Antão Plant exploration in the Cape Verde Islands in the first half of 19th century
- 8. Joseph D. Hooker in the Macaronesian Islands - 1839 Volcán El Teide, Tenerife media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/26/dc/ef/au-pied-du-teide.jpg www.madeira-live.com/images/stories/headers/ponta_s_lourenco/ponta_s_lourenco_01.jpg Ponta de São Lourenço, Madeira
- 10. static.panoramio.com/photos/large/23857373.jpg Quail Island (currently Santa Maria) is small and inhabited islet c. 0.05 km2 and 420 m long, 130 wide
- 11. • British Botanist • One of the most important authorities on Macaronesian plants during the 19th Century • Plant exploration in Madeira and Porto Santo (1828) • Plant exploration expedition in the Canaries (1828–1830) • Never visited the Azores or The Cape Verde archipelagos Philip Barker Webb FRS (1793–1854) Photocredit:HerbariumWebbianum
- 12. • Co-author with S. Berthelot (1794– 1880) of first comprehensive Flora of the Canary Islands: • Part of a nine volume work on Natural History of the Canary Islands (1835–1850) • Wrote first comprehensive Flora for Cape Verde Islands - Spicilegia Gorgonea (1849) - but he never visited the islands • Webb’s herbarium (300,000 specimens), and most of his correspondence, housed at Museo di Storia Naturale Università di Firenze
- 13. • Hooker’s Antarctic Journal as it was: • 46 pages devoted to the Cape Verde Islands that include only two ink sketches of stunted trees
- 14. Correspondence between Webb and Hooker Twenty five letters (1845–1847); which include some details on the Cape Verde flora and the progress of Spicilegia Gorgonea Your most acceptable present from the Cape Verde plants have at last arrived. I have imagine that Mr. Haward was a better man of business than to have sent this box without stating in his letter to Mr. Franch […] I was delighted to see many old friends some with new faces. The Campylanthus for example does not entirely corresponds with its Canarian brother tho’ [though] the first aspect is identic but perceive a decided difference in the calyx. I have not however had time to go deeper and analysed it. Both yourself and Mr. Vogel must have visited the islands in a very unfavourable season or are the plants always so dried up there? Paris, May 28th 1845
- 15. Fragment of a letter written by Webb to Hooker I addressed you, my dear Sir, a few lines by Mr Claude Gay with a packet containing the Gorgonean plants to be figured up to No 10. […] I will now send you all the plants as far as my M.S. goes and this will be advantageous in two ways, first to compare them to those of Xtian [Christen] Smith and secondly with yours of continental Africa with which some few may be identic. […] For myself I shall retain only the collection you were so good as to send me and if I ever add a loan to it, it will be only be in case where the larceny will be quite pardonable in order to complete a species. Unknown date
- 16. Kleinia neriifolia Haw. (Compositae). Canary Island endemic • J.D. Hooker collected in Madeira, the Canaries, and the Cape Verde Islands • The ‘first set’ is assumed to be in the Herbarium at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – some easy, others difficult, to locate or not yet found.
- 17. Hooker’s collection number written by him. “in litt.” = “in litteris” or in correspondence/letter; refers to information that Hooker obtained from other collectors’ specimens, mostly at BM Herbarium. Spicilegia Gorgonea text body
- 18. Brassica nigra (L.) K. Koch (Brassicaceae). Introduced, Black Mustard s3.amazonaws.com/flora_photos/pictures/31944/ampliada.jpg?1291354278
- 19. Sheet with three different collections 1: Vogel, 31 and 34 (year 1841) 2: J.D. Hooker 159 (year 1839) Tribulus cistoides L. (Zygophyllaceae). Introduced, Puncture Vine calphotos.berkeley.edu/imgs/512x768/0000_0000/0113/2702.jpg
- 20. Lectotype of Campanula jacobaea Webb in Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 8: 762 (Campanulaceae). Hooker 125. Cape Verde endemic. Photocredit:MariaRomeiras Label given by P.B. Webb
- 21. Summary of what’s available: • 450 records added to the Herbarium Catalogue in Kew. These are all Cape Verde Island collections including material collected by Vogel, Brunner, Forbes, Lowe, etc. and complement, to a large extent, Spicilegia Gorgonea. All available on the Internet • 25 letters from Webb addressed to J.D. Hooker’s deciphered and transcribed into electronic files to be given to the Kew Archives • pages 1-115 of the J.D. Hooker’s Antarctic Journal transcribed into an electronic file to be given to the Kew Archives; N.B. these include beginning of the Journal to St. Helena • two papers to be published Joseph D. Hooker’s collections made in the Cape Verde Islands (1839)
- 22. Summary of the J.D. Hooker’s herbarium specimens expected to be in Kew Specimens recorded in Spicilegia Gorgonea Specimens recorded in Spicilegia Gorgonea and found in Kew Herb. Specimens recorded in Spicilegia Gorgonea not found in Kew Herb.1 Number of specimens not recorded in Spicilegia Gorgonea and found in Kew Total number of specimens found in Kew Total number of species with Hooker’s specimens recorded in Spicilegia Gorgonea2 125 63 58 16 79 118 1Twelve of these specimens are of species that are reported in Spicilegia Gorgonea as collected by Hooker but without a collection number, or with a different collection number. However, we found Hooker specimens for these 12 species in Kew under different collection numbers. 2Nine of these species were described as new by Webb or colleagues in Spicilegia Gorgonea and are Hooker’s collections (most are syntypes). NB. The Natural History Museum Herbarium (BM) is the repository of two Algae specimens reported in Spicilegia Gorgonea.
- 23. New species described in Spicilegia Gorgonea (1849) Species Family Herbarium Type 1. Dolichos daltonii Webb Leguminosae K 2. Euphorbia tuckeyana Steud. ex Webb Euphorbiaceae FI, K Hooker 115 (FI), Lectotype (Molero et al., in preparation) 3. Forsskaolea procridifolia Webb Urticaceae K 4. Forsskaolea viridis Ehrenberg ex Webb Urticaceae K 5. Melhania leprieurii Webb Malvaceae K 6. Monachyron villosum Parl. in Webb Poaceae FI Hooker s.n. (B), Holotype (Polecot, 1999) 7. Odontospermum daltonii Webb Compositae FI Hooker 204 (FI), Lectotype (Halvorsen & Borgen, 1986) 8. Phyllanthus scabrellus Webb Euphorbiaceae Not yet found 9. Sapota marginata Decne. ex Webb* Sapotaceae K Hooker 114 (K), Holotype (Lobin et al., 2005) * Included in Spicilegia Gorgonea, however, described as new in Niger Fl. 169 (1849)
- 24. Euphorbia tuckeyana Steud. ex Webb, Spicilegia Gorgonea: 177 (1849). Kew specimen. Photocredit:MariaRomeirasPhotocredit:MariaRomeiras http://www.wnsstamps.post/stamps/2002/CV/CV001.02.jpg
- 25. Type of Odontospermum daltonii Webb [currently accepted name Nauplius daltonii (Webb) Wiklund]. Housed at Herbarium Universitatis Florentinae, Herbarium Webbianum Photocredit:MariaRomeiras
- 26. Joseph D. Hooker’s collections made in The Cape Verde Islands (1839) Future work: • Determine if specimens not located/found in the herbarium in Kew are housed at the Herbarium Webbianum - Herbarium Universitatis Florentinae, Botanical Section, Natural History Museum of Florence University • Study the correspondence between Hooker and Webb ( for which we now know there are 32 letters (1843– 1847 ) at Library of Sciences, Botany section of Florence University • A paper to be published and explore the possibility of the complementary materials to be put up on line Photo credit: Herbarium Webbianum
- 27. Chiara Nepi Arnoldo Santos Instituto Canario Investigaciones Agarias, retired Professor Javier Francisco-Ortega Maria Cristina Duarte Centro de Ecologia, Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa Maria Romeiras Instituto Superior de Agronomia & Centro de Ecologia, Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa