The Sessé expedition in Cuba and Puerto Rico
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https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.1991.v43.2.540Abstract
This paper considers what is, perhaps, one of the least studied aspects of the Botanical Expedition to New Spain: the Commission that made the voyage of exploration to study the Natural History of the Windward Islands from 1795 to 1798. This Commission was formed by part of the expeditionary group of New Spain under its director, Martin de Sessé, and included the pharmacist Jaime Senseve and the painter Atanasio Echevarría. The paper discusses relations between the expeditionaries and the members of the most prestigious reformist institutions in Cuba: the Sociedad Patriótica and the Real Consulado de La Habana; as well as contacts and cooperation with the other Spanish expedition under the Conde de Mopox on the island at that time. Consideration is also given to the initiatives and the key role played by the Commission in the creation of the botanical gardens of Habana, and in the consolidation of the modern botany of the island.
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