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CAVANILLES, ANTONIO JOSE (1745–1804)

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CAVANILLES, See also:ANTONIO JOSE (1745–1804) , See also:Spanish botanist, was See also:born at See also:Valencia on the 16th of See also:January 1745. He was educated at the university of that See also:town, and in 1777 went to See also:Paris, where he resided twelve years, engaged in the study of See also:botany. In 18o1 he became director of the botanic gardens at See also:Madrid, where he died on the 4th of May 1804. In 1785–1786 he published Monadelphiae Classis See also:Dissertations X., and in 1791 he began to issue Icones et descriptiones plantarum Hispaniae. His See also:nephew, ANTONIO CAVANILLES (1805–1864), was a distinguished See also:advocate, and the author of a See also:history of See also:Spain, published at Madrid in 1860–1864.

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