Clarke Abel

See also: Abel (homonymy)

Clarke Abel is a British Naturaliste , born towards 1780 and dead the November 24th 1824.

It makes studies of Médecine and embarks in 1816 on board H.M.S. Alceste . It arrives in China where it constitutes an important collection of Natural history but this one is almost entirely lost at the time of a shipwreck. Abel offers the small fraction which it can save in Sir George Thomas Staunton (1781-1859) in 1816. The plants which he harvest are studied by Robert Brown (1773-1858) which dedicates the to him Abelia of Caprifoliaceae in 1818.

It remains and studies fauna, the flora and the geology of the South Africa. He becomes member of the Royal Society in 1819, of the Société linnéenne of London, of the geological Société of London as well as various others learned societies. He makes appear in 1818 Narrative off has Journey in the Interior off Clouded, 1816--1817 .

Source

  • Allen G. Debus (to dir.) (1968). World Who' S Who in Science. In Biographical Dictionary off Notable Scientists from Present Antiquity to the. Marquis-Who' S Who (Chicago): xvi + 1855 p.

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