Between 1862 and 1881, the director of the Zoological Section of the Museu Nacional de
Lisboa, José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage, launched and consolidated a research program …

Modern zoological studies and the establishment of natural history collections in Portugal
date back to the second half of the eighteenth century, and have run through the nineteenth …

This paper provides an overview of the organization and first decades of the Zoological
Section of the Museu Nacional de Lisboa (National Museum of Lisbon), under the …

Discovered in 1500 by the Portuguese, Brazil was almost immediately christened the 'land of
parrots', with early travellers claiming that blue skies would darken as if night had fallen …

ABSTRACT A comprehensive approach to the cataloguing of natural diversity was
developed by the natural philosophes in France and became part of French government …

The expedition commanded by the Frenchman Nicolas Thomas Baudin aboard the ships Le
Géographe and Le Naturaliste (and Le Casuarina for the return journey) to the southern …

This paper discusses the life and scientific work of José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage (1823–
1907), a nineteenth-century Portuguese naturalist who carved a new place for zoological …

Scientific knowledge of the southern African flora and fauna began soon after the initiation of
colonial rule in the area. Particularly showy Cape plants early attracted the interest of …

Myrian Sepúlveda dos Santos also built in Recife the first astronomical observatory in the
Americas and in the Southern Hemisphere. The artists Frans Post and Albert Eckhout …

This fall has been quite eventful for ICAZ officers as we are preparing for our 12th
International Conference in San Rafael, Argentina during late September next year. Not only …