Person naturalist zoologist librarian
Adolfo de Noronha
A. C. de Noronha
naturalist · zoologist · librarian · writer · civil servant
Madeiran naturalist and zoologist who found the sponge Merlia normani off Porto Santo. He is quoted on mullet fishing methods and received Cockerell's letter about Mitten's herbarium.
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- Grey mullet (Mugil corrugatus) — Author quoted on the proper methods of fishing for mullet in Madeira.
- Mitten (William) — Madeiran zoologist who received Cockerell's letter about Mitten's herbarium.
- Norman (Dr Alfred Merle) — Madeiran naturalist who found the sponge Merlia normani off Porto Santo.
- Sarmento (Alberto Artur) — Co-author with Sarmento of a work on the fishes of Madeiran seas.
- Climate — Made meteorological observations at Porto Santo town in 1900–1902.
- St Clare (church) — Librarian of Funchal council who tried unsuccessfully to found an art museum in the church.
- Scientific expeditions — Madeiran naturalist who accompanied the Endurance (1914) and Dana (1921) scientists to the Desertas.
- Fish — Co-author of 'Os Peixes dos Mares da Madeira' (1934).
- Garajau (cape) — Naturalist who wrote articles on the tern and the headland in 1927.
- Joksimowitsch (Ziwko) — Madeiran naturalist who collected all the fossils studied by Joksimowitsch.
- Fishing ports — Madeiran ichthyologist whose information on the black scabbardfish and tuna catches is cited here.
- Folklore — Writer whose scattered writings provide material for a study of Madeiran folklore.
- Octopus (Octopus vulgaris) — Informant who told the Elucidário of the giant cephalopod found near Madeira in 1861.
- Nobre (António) — Accompanied Augusto Nobre on his 1927 visit to the poet's house.
- Tubarão (Carcharias microps) — Informed the Elucidário that the name tubarão survived only among Caniçal fishermen.
- Porto Santo (hydrography) — Madeiran naturalist who studied the raised beach of Porto Santo and planned to publish on its marine shells (1921).
- Openheim (Dr) — Madeiran naturalist who found the fossil corals studied by Openheim.
- Savage Islands — Naturalist who described the Selvagens and assembled geological collections from them.
- Fishing — Madeiran naturalist whose 1932 Diário de Notícias article on fishing forms most of this entry.
- Quincentenary of the discovery of Madeira — Contributor to the centenary publication.
- Kirkpatrick (R.) — Madeiran naturalist who found the sponge Melia normani in the seas off Porto Santo.
- Natural History Museum — Man of science chiefly responsible for creating and installing the Funchal museum.
- Lobsters — Madeiran naturalist who wrote the article 'A Lagosta da Madeira' in the Diário de Notícias in 1927.
- Sponges — Madeiran naturalist who discovered the sponge Melia Normani off Porto Santo.
2Chronology
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Adolfo César de Noronha was born in Funchal.
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Adolfo César de Noronha was appointed librarian of the Funchal Municipal Library.
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Adolfo de Noronha was preparing a publication on the shells of Porto Santo's raised beach.
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A. C. de Noronha's article on Madeiran fishing was published in the Diário de Notícias.
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Noronha and Sarmento published the study 'Os Peixes dos Mares da Madeira'.
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