José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage

José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage ( born 2 May 1823 in Funchal, Madeira, † November 3, 1907 in Lisbon, Portugal) was a Portuguese zoologist and politician. Bocage was the nephew of the 3rd degree of the famous Portuguese poet Manoel de Maria Barbosa du Bocage.

Life

José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage was the son of João José Barbosa du Bocage and D. Josefa Ferreira Pestana. When he was five years old, the family moved to Brazil. 1834 Bocage returned back to Madeira. From 1839 to 1846 he studied at the University of Coimbra. In 1851 he was editing at the Department of Zoology at the University of Lisbon, where he taught for more than 30 years. In 1858 he was scientific director and curator of zoology at the Natural History Museum of the Polytechnic School, which was founded as a support for the chair.

Bocages work for the museum consisted of the acquisition, description as well as the coordination of collections that came in many cases from the Portuguese colonies in Africa such as Angola and Mozambique, and naturalists such as José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta (1832-1897) were collected. In 1862, he standardized the procedures for the collection, preparation and sending of specimens to the museum in his book " Instrucções Practicas sobre o Modo de Colligir, preparar e Remetter Zoológicos Productos para o Museu de Lisboa ". In 1860 he was successful in reacquiring some collections that were captured during the Napoleonic invasion of Portugal, including precious specimens from Brazilian naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira ( 1756-1815 ), were collected in Brazil. In 1875 he was elected Vice President of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Lisbon. In 1880 he retired from his teaching and scientific activities, but remained museum director. He was Navy and Overseas Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1883 to 1886 in Portugal.

Bocage published more than 200 scientific articles on mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish. He was responsible for the identification of many new species, which he named after the naturalists, which they had collected. After several Bocage Tiertaxa of São Tomé and the Iberian Peninsula as the Zwergolivenibis are ( Bostrychia bocagei ) or Bocages wall lizard ( Podarcis bocagei ) named. In his honor, the zoological department of the National Museum in Lisbon in 1905 was renamed the Museu José Vicente Barboza du Bocage. In 1978 the museum was almost completely destroyed by fire.

Works

  • A ornitologia dos Açores, 1866
  • Aves the possessões portuguesas d ' Africa occidental que existem no Museu de Lisboa since 1 ª ª à lista 24, 1868 a 1882
  • Lista dos répteis the possessões portuguesas d ' Africa occidental que existem no Museu de Lisboa, 1866
  • Notice sur un nouveau batracien du Portugal, 1864
  • Diagnosis de algumas espécies inéditas because família Squalidae que os frequentam nossos mares, 1864
  • Peixes plagiostomos, 1866
  • Ornithology d ' Angola, in 1881 and 1877
  • Herpethologie d' Angola et du Congo, 1895.
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