Philip Barker Webb

See also: Barker, Webb

Philip Barker Webb is a British Botaniste , born the July 10th 1793 with Milfort House in the Comté of Surrey and dead the August 31st 1854 with Paris.

He is the son of Philip Smith Webb and Hannah born Barker. He makes his studies with the Christ Church of Oxford and enters in Lincoln' S Inn in 1812. He obtains his Bachelor off Arts in 1815. He studies the Géologie near William Buckland (1784-1856). He travels in Italy and Greece in 1817 - 1818, in Spain in 1826, with the Portugal and the Morocco in 1827, in the Canary islands of 1828 with 1830, Italy of 1848 with 1850 and the west of the Ireland in 1851. He constitutes, with the wire of his voyages, large collections of natural history. They are studied by large naturalists like Achille Valencian (1794-1865) for the Poisson S and Alcide Dessalines d' Orbigny (1806-1876) for the Mollusque S.

He becomes member of the Royal Society in 1824. He is in particular the author of Osservazioni intorno hello stato antico E presents dell' Agro trojano del Signor Filippo Barker Webb (Milan, 1821, translated into French in 1844 pennies the title of old and modern Topographie of Troade , Gide, Paris), with Sabin Berthelot (1794-1880) Natural history of the Canary islands (1836-1850), Iter hispaniense, but has Synopsis off seedlings collected in the Southern provinces off Spain and in Portugal, with geographical remarks, and observations one rare and undescribed species (Béthune, Paris and H. Coxhead, London, 1838), Fragmenta floruia aethiopico-aegypticae (1845), Otia hispanica, seu Delectus plantarum rariorum aut nondum rite notarum per Hispanias sponte nascentium (V. Masson, Paris, 1853). He withdraws himself in Paris.

Source

  • Marie-Louise Bauchot, Jacques Daget & Roland Bauchot (1997). Ichthyology in France At the Beginning off the 19th Century: The “Natural history of Poisson “off Vat (1769-1832) and Valencian (1794-1865). in Collection building in ichthyology and herpetology (PIETSCH T.W.ANDERSON W.D., to dir.), American Society off Ichthyologists and Herpetologists: 27-80.

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