ANCESTRIES OF THE MAN IN THE POSTAL STAMPS - BIOLOGY - SCIENTISTS - PART III

José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage
(1823-1907)

Unjustly forgotten by the Portuguese post-office who publish thousands of emissions of stamps, sets dedicated to the foreigners, less known that Prof. Dr. José Vicente Barbosa Du Bocage.

ANGOLA
1970

Angolasaurus bocagei ANT
Mi. nº. 563
Scott nº. 551
Yvert nº. 560

ANGOLA
1951

Widower-of-Bocage

(Urobrachya bocagei or
Coliuspasser bocagei or still
Euplectes axillaris bocagei)

Mi. nº. 554
Yvert nº. 343

The post-office of Portugal repeats emissions with names of doctors and investigators, always the same ones, as if Portugal they only had these representatives names of sciences, but forgets this Titan of Sciences, world-wide obligatory in the Faculties of Sciences of the whole world.

Portugal is a country of envious and mediocrity, and for will be great has to run away for the foreigner who recognizes them and praises like great one then sure they are.

Like this great men:

• (Strong persecution against the Jews inspired by the Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, (the Catholic Kings)- the Inquisition was established in 1536, inspired by the newly formed Company of Jesus):

Abraaham Zacuto (1452-1514) - (astronomer and inventor of nautical instruments);

Samuel Porteira Gacon (?-1487 -?) (establisher of the first Portuguese printing-press - the Pentateuco, had as first Portuguese incunabula in 1487 );

Pedro Nunes Salaciense (1492-1577 or 1502-1578) - (cosmographer and mathematician);

Garcia d’Orta (1501 or 1502-1568) - (court physician and pioneer of studies on Oriental flora);

Fernão Mendes Pinto (1509–1583) - (Portuguese explorer and writer)

Francisco Sanches (1551-1623) - (scientist and physician to Catherine the Great of Russia);

Isaac ben Judah Abravanel (1437-1508) . (royal tresurer of El-King D. João I)

• The Marquis of Pombal was removed from office and intellectuals like:

António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches (1699 - 1783) - In the Imperial Cut in Russia the Portuguese doctor Ribeiro Sanches, that much contributed and influenced the formation of his Russian colleagues, mainly left best remembers thanks to his activity in the field of the medicine.

Was member of the Academy of Cięncias of S. Petersburg.

Filinto Elisio (pseudonym of the Father Francisco Manuel do Nascimento) (1734-1819) - (Poet)

or

Felix Avelar Brotero (1744–1828) - Portuguese botanist, briolog and micolog.

were forced into exile.

• Modernly:

Dr. Aristides de Souza Mendes (1885–1954) (Portuguese diplomat who saved the lives of about 30,000 Jews and others, during the Nazi Holocaust - persecuting by the Prime Minister of Portugal, the dictator Salazar);

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (Árpád Szenes) (1908–1992) was a Portuguese-French abstractionist painter;

José Saramago (1922- ) - Portuguese writer Nobel Prize in Literature 1998);

Perhaps because he never was Mason, or belong to the Masonry !

Perhaps because he's Madeirense, been born in the Funchal.

( Even the Madeira Island never had emitted any issue dedicated to his countryman )

see article:
http://www.triplov.com/hist_fil_ciencia/Adilio-Jorge-Marques/Setembrizada/index.htm

ANGOLA
1951

Buccanodon anchietae Bocage, 1869

Mi. nº. 344
Yvert nº. 333

Portuguese naturalist, paleontologist, zoologist and doctor of the Royal Paço of El-king D. Manuel II.

An eminent naturalistic scholar, his today unjustly forgotten, founding Museum of Natural History of the College of the Noblemen of Lisbon that, in 1858 took his name Bocage published more than 200 taxonomic papers about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, and many others. He was responsible for identifying many new species, which he named according to the naturalist who found them (for example, dozens of new species received the "anchietae" apod).

Selected works:

• The ornithology of the Azores, 1866;

• Birds of the Portuguese possessions of occidental Africa that exist in the Museum of Lisbon, of the 1st à 24th list, 1868 a 1882;

• List of the reptiles of the Portuguese possessions of occidental Africa that exist in the Museum of Lisbon, 1866;

• Note on a new batrachian of Portugal, 1864;

• Diagnose of some unknown species of the Squaliidae family that frequent our seas, 1864;

• Plagiostoms' fish, 1866; Ornithology of Angola, 1881 and 1877;

• Herpetology of Angola and Congo, 1895.

Vice-President of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon.

Minister of Overseas and the Foreigners and Pair of the Kingdom of El-king D. Manuel II, Doctor of the Royal Paço and partner of the Royal Academy of Sciences.

The zoology collection at the Lisbon Museum is called the "Bocage Museum" in his honor.

CARLOS DE LA TORRE Y HUERTA
(1858-1950)

CUBA
1958


Yvert P.A. nº. 181/184


FDC - (29.AUG.1958)

1960

Yvert nº.

2008



Yvert nº.


Cuban naturalist, malacologist, archaeologist and paleontologist

De la Torre was a naturalist of the old school, with broad interests in natural history. He focused his research on mollusks, both living and paleontological specimens.

Realised medicine studies and pharmacy in the University of Havana, left its race to dedicate itself to Natural Sciences, where reached the title of Doctor in 1889 in the University of Madrid.

He was founding of the Section of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of Havana.

Demonstrated with his expeditions and collections the land existence of the Cretaceous period in Cuba.

Jean Bouyssonie (1877-1965)
Amédée Bouyssonie (1867-1958)


FRANCE

Brive La Gaillarde (23.APR.1977)

The museum of l' Man of Neanderthal is the consequence d' important discovered of the Chapelle-Aux-Saints.

The Chapelle-Aux-Saints (28.AUG.1990)

These two abbots discoverers of the Neanderthal man of Chapelle-Aux-Saint

It is into 1908 that the abbots Buyssonie and their brothers discover at the bottom of a cave, Bouffia Bonneval, the burial of a buried man approximately 45.000 years ago.

This discovery was to revolutionize all the theories on the prehistoric world, since it was the first time that was put at the day such an old burial.

In parallel were discovered many objects and tools, discs, scrapers, flints… now exposed: large windows, photographs, models, reconstitutions on the conditions and lifestyles of Neanderthal.