Domingo Bello y Espinosa

Domingo Bello y Espinosa ( born July 31, 1817 in La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, † January 21, 1884 ) was a Spanish botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Bello ".

Life and work

After studying law at the Universidad de San Fernando in 1845 repealed in Tenerife he had for a short time held the office of the mayor of La Laguna end of 1842. From 1845 to 1847 he was secretary of the College of Lawyers in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 1850 emigrated Bello y Espinosa to Puerto Rico, where he settled in Mayagüez and opened a successful law firm. In his spare Bello y Espinosa operation botanical studies, particularly in the west of Puerto Rico. He was a close friend of Consul Carl Wilhelm Leopold Krug, with whom he worked in later years. In 1878 he returned to Tenerife, where he died in 1884. In 1880 he attended the International Fisheries Exhibition in Berlin and studied the botanical collection in Berlin- Dahlem.

Bello y Espinosa's most famous work is Apuntes para la flora de Puerto Rico, in 1881 and 1883 published in two volumes and includes a checklist of 964 species. It is based on the collections Bello y Espinosa and pitcher. However, the influential contribution pitcher will be honored in any section of the work. A second book entitled Un Jardin Canario devoted Bello y Espinosa of the Canarian flora. A herbarium Bello y Espinosa not created. His Canarian plants collection is located in the herbarium at the Botanical Museum in Berlin pitcher, his Puerto Rican was destroyed by insects.