Adam Afzelius: Sierra Leone journals 1795-96
1967 (English)Collection (editor) (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Abstract [en]
Adam Afzelius botanist and professor at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and one of he last of the pupils of the famous Linnaeus spent the years 1792-1796 as a botanist in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The first parts of his journals and his collections were destroyed in Freetown during a French attack in 1794, but the journals from 1795 and 1796 survived and are preserved in the manuscript collections of the University Library at Uppsala. Afzelius had a keen eye for minute detail and his journals abound with descriptions and notes of great botanical and ethnographical interest.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala, Sweden: The Institute of African Studies, University of Sierra Leone; Nordiska Afrikainstitutet , 1967. , p. 181
National Category
Botany Ethnology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-1700OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nai-1700DiVA, id: diva2:599858
Note
181 pages. With a note on Adam Afzelius by Carl Gösta Widstrand.
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