PinedaA

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Pineda, Antonio

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

Born: 1759, Guatemala, Centr. America. Died: June 21, 1792, Badoc, Illocos Prov., Luzon, P.I.

career:

Was an official in the Spanish military service. He was the naturalist in charge of the natural history investigations of the Malaspina Expedition, 1789-94 (cf. sub Haenke and Née for detailed data). He accompanied Haenke on some foot-tours in Luzon, P.I. After his death a monument, now entirely destroyed, was erected at Manila.¹

Some authors took him to be a zoologist, others to be a botanist.

Collecting localities:

He made a trip with J. de Cuellar (see there) to the extreme north of Luzon.

collections:

There is no record that he collected material of either botanical or zoological nature.

literature:

(1) E.D. Merrill: ‘The Pineda Monument and the probable site of the first botanical garden in the Philippines’ (Philip. Journ. Sci. C. Bot. 7, 1912, p. 363-369, t. 22).

biographical data:

‘Noticias sobre D. Antonio Pineda’ (Mem. lit., Madrid 1794) (non vidi); Colmeiro, La botanica y los botanicos etc., 1858, p. 182-183.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature Biographical data
	Pineda, Antonio
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)
	Born: 1759, Guatemala, Centr. America. Died: June 21, 1792, Badoc, Illocos Prov., Luzon, P.I.
	career: Was an official in the Spanish military service. He was the naturalist in charge of the natural history investigations of the Malaspina Expedition, 1789-94 (cf. sub Haenke and Née for detailed data). He accompanied Haenke on some foot-tours in Luzon, P.I. After his death a monument, now entirely destroyed, was erected at Manila.¹ Some authors took him to be a zoologist, others to be a botanist.
	Collecting localities: He made a trip with J. de Cuellar (see there) to the extreme north of Luzon.
	collections: There is no record that he collected material of either botanical or zoological nature.
	literature: (1) E.D. Merrill: ‘The Pineda Monument and the probable site of the first botanical garden in the Philippines’ (Philip. Journ. Sci. C. Bot. 7, 1912, p. 363-369, t. 22).
	biographical data: ‘Noticias sobre D. Antonio Pineda’ (Mem. lit., Madrid 1794) (non vidi); Colmeiro, La botanica y los botanicos etc., 1858, p. 182-183.