Francisco Noronha

Father Francisco Noronha (also spelled Francisco Noroña) (mostly wrongly cited as Fernando do Noronha) (1748, Seville, Spain - January 12, 1788, Mauritius) was a Spanish physician and botanist who resided for some time at Manila, Luzon, Philippines, where he took much effort to organize the Royal Botanic Garden and stock it with valuable plants. Three sets of his water-colour drawings of Javan plants and one set of 108 numbered drawings still exist. harvtxt|Williams|2003 describes him as "a Spanish physician and botanist who had visited Madagascar", while harvtxt|Zuidevaart|Van Gent|2004 call him "a capable botanist from Manila" who in 1786 had taken over supervision of the museum of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences in Java.He is commemorated in the genus Noronhia of the Oleaceae family and in several plant species including [http://www.hear.org/Pier/species/noronhia_emarginata.htm Noronhia emarginata] by the Dutch botanists Carl Ludwig Blume and Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt. [citation
title = Noroña, Francisco
url = http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/fmcollectors/N/NoronaF.htm
publisher = Nationaal Herbarium Nederland
accessdate = 2007-08-21]

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References

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last = Pinar García | first = Susana
title = El sueño de las especias : viaje de exploración de Francisco Noroña por las Islas de Filipinas, Java, Mauricio y Madagascar
location = Madrid
publisher = Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Departamento de Historia de la Ciencia, Cuadernos Galileo de historia de la ciencia 21
year = 2000
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*citation
last = Pinar García | first = Susana
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year = 1995
volume = 1
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*citation
last = Pinar García | first = Susana
title = Little-Known Travellers and Natural Systems: Francisco Noroña's Exploratory Voyage through the Islands of the Indian Ocean (1784–1788)
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year = 1997
volume = 24
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*citation
last1 = Pinar García | first1 = Susana
first2 = Miguel Angel | last2 = Puig-Samper Mulero
first3 = Francisco | last3 = Pelayo López
contribution = Francisco Noroña, un naturalista español en el Océano Índico
title = De la ciencia ilustrada a la ciencia romántica : actas de las II Jornadas sobre "España y las Expediciones Científicas en América y Filipinas"
editor1-first = Tomás | editor1-last = Mallo Gutiérrez
editor2-first = Daniel | editor2-last = Pacheco Fernández
editor3-first = Alejandro R. | editor3-last = Díez Torre
year = 1995
location = Madrid | publisher = Doce Calles, Ateneo Científico, Literario y Artístico
isbn = 9788487111532
pages = 109–120

*citation
title = French Botany in the Enlightenment: The Ill-fated Voyages of La Pérouse and His Rescuers
last = Williams | first = Roger Lawrence
publisher = Springer-Verlag | year = 2003 | pages = p. 116
isbn = 1402011091.

*citation
first1 = Huib J. | last1 = Zuidervaart | first2 = Rob H. | last2 = Van Gent
title = A Bare Outpost of Learned European Culture on the Edge of the Jungles of Java
journal = Isis | volume = 95 | year = 2004 | pages = 1–33 | doi = 10.1086/423509.