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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Vidal and the second or maternal family name is Soler.
Sebastián Vidal
Statue of Vidal in Manila
Born(1842-04-01)1 April 1842
Barcelona, Spain
Died28 July 1889(1889-07-28) (aged 47)[1]
Manila, Captaincy General of the Philippines
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, Forestry
Academic advisorsMáximo Laguna
Author abbrev. (botany)S.Vidal

Sebastián Vidal y Soler (Barcelona, April 1, 1842-Manila, July 28, 1889) was a Spanish forester and botanist.

The standard author abbreviation S.Vidal is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

Sebastián Vidal and his lesser known brother, Domingo, studied at the Spanish forestry school. In the 1870s they both took up posts in the forestry service of the Philippines, which was a Spanish colonial possession.

Sebastián Vidal had a particular interest in woody plants, but studied Malesian flora in general, collecting specimens, collaborating with other botanists, and publishing a number of works including Revision de Plantas Vasculares Filipinas (Manila 1886).[3]

In 1883 he was back in Europe and visited herbaria there including that of Kew.[4]

Vidal served as director of the Botanical Garden of Manila from 1878 until his death in 1889 from cholera.[5] A statue of Vidal by Enric Clarasó was erected in the Garden, although it no longer survives.

Plant specimens

Although the herbarium in Manila was destroyed in a fire in 1897, some of Vidal's specimens of Philippine flora are preserved in Europe to this day, at Kew[6] and notably at Madrid's Real Jardín Botánico, where, since Vidal's death Benjamín Máximo Laguna and later scholars have worked on them.[7][5]

References

  1. ^ Obituary: Señor Don Sebastian Vidal, Popular Science Monthly
  2. ^ International Plant Names Index.  S.Vidal.
  3. ^ "Vidal y Soler, Sebastian". Cyclopedia of Malesian Collectors. Nationaal Herbarium Nederland. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
  4. ^ Sebastián Vidal y Soler (1885). Phanerogamae Cumingianae Philippinarum: ó, Índice numèrico y catálogo sistemático de las plantas fanerogamas coleccionadas en Filipinas. M. Pérez Hijo. 217 pp.
  5. ^ a b Blanco Fernández de Caleya, Paloma (1995). "Los herbarios de las expediciones científicas españolas al nuevo mundo". Asclepio. 47 (2): 185.
  6. ^ Adiantum caudatum, Herbarium Catalogue. Kew.
  7. ^ "Vidal Herbarium". Real Jardín Botánico. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
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