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Niger Flora
Or, An Enumeration of the Plants of Western Tropical Africa

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Editor: William Jackson Hooker

L. C. Treviranus, J. R. T. Vogel, W. J. Hooker, J. D. Hooker, P. Parker Webb, J. D. Hooker, George Bentham

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Date Published: July 2011
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9781108030380

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German scientist Theodore Vogel (1812–1841) joined an 1841 expedition to the Niger as its chief botanist. He died in the course of the journey, though not before taking extensive notes about the plants that he encountered. His botanical collection and diary were passed to the botanist William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), who had been appointed as the first full-time director of Kew Gardens in the same year. Hooker edited Vogel's diary and observations and the resulting work, Niger Flora, was published in 1849. Because Vogel's period in West Africa was cut short by his untimely death, much of the work looks at the flora of the places the expedition stopped at along the way – Madeira, Tenerife and the Cape Verde islands, before giving details – including numerous illustrations – about west African plants. The works also includes observations on African flora by other botanists, including Joseph Dalton Hooker, William's son.

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Product details
- Date Published: July 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108030380
- length: 668 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 37 mm
- weight: 0.84kg
- contains: 45 b/w illus. 1 map
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Memoir of the life of Dr. J. R. T. Vogel L.C. Treviranus
Journal of the Voyage to the Niger J. R. T. Vogel
Botany of the Niger Expedition W. J. Hooker and J. D. Hooker
Spicilegia Gorgonea, or, a Catalogue of all the Plants as yet Discovered in the Cape de Verd Islands P. Parker Webb
Flora Nigritiana, or, a Catalogue of the Plants of the River Niger, the Island of Fernando Po, and adjacent Parts of Western Tropical Africa J. D. Hooker and George Bentham
Index.
Editor
William Jackson Hooker
Contributors
L. C. Treviranus, J. R. T. Vogel, W. J. Hooker, J. D. Hooker, P. Parker Webb, J. D. Hooker, George Bentham