Porto-born physician and naturalist, Baron of Castelo de Paiva, commissioned in 1855 to study Madeira's agriculture and economy. He built a Madeiran herbarium and shell collection and wrote a landmark monograph on the archipelago's land and freshwater molluscs.
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12 October 1806
António da Costa Paiva, later Barão de Castelo de Paiva, was born in Porto.
4 June 1879
António da Costa Paiva, Baron of Castelo de Paiva, died in Funchal.
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