Person botanist priest
José Gonçalves da Costa
botanist · priest
Young Madeiran priest, seminarian and botanist whose collecting, including at the Ponta and Ribeira do Tristão, made the Seminary herbarium and museum flowering-plant collection among the richest by 1921. The name also appears for the first chaplain of the S. Lourenço fortress in 1641.
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- Ponta do Tristão — Naturalist who collected several plant species at the Ponta and Ribeira do Tristão.
- Seminary Museum — Young Madeiran botanist whose fieldwork greatly improved the museum's flowering-plant collection.
- Flora — Priest named among the botanists who studied Madeira's flora.
- Herbaria — Young Madeiran botanist and seminarian whose collecting made the Seminary herbarium one of the richest by 1921.
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