> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 163](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259667) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2702-1) LSID 2702-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188916) QID Q188916 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Ferreira, Alexandre (Alejandro) Rodrigues|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Ferreira, Alexandre \[Alejandro\]Rodrigues (1756-1815), Portuguese botanist and explorer, born 27 Apr 1756 in Bahia, Brazil, doctorate 1779 Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal, worked at the Museo da Ajuda, Lisbon 1778-1783, charged by the Portuguese government with a voyage of scientific exploration he traveled and collected extensively (1783-1792) in interior (esp. Amazonian) Brazil, dir., Gabinete de Historia Natural and of the Jardim Botanico, Lisbon 1793-1815, member, Real Academia de Ciências, Lisbon, died 23 Apr 1815 in Belem nr. Lisbon, the "Brazilian Humboldt". **Abbreviated name**: *Ferreira* \[standard form in IPNI: *Ferreira*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection LISC|LISC]] (1213 Phan.), duplicates [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LISU|LISU]], [[Collection P|P]] (1114 Phan., see below). – Mss. materials are in the Museu Bocage, Univ. of Lisbon (Ferreira Papers, partly destroyed by fire in 1978); and Biblioteca Nacional and Museu Nacional, both in Rio de Janeiro. – *Note*: Following the French occupation of Portugal (1808) during the Peninsular Wars, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844) expropriated for the Muséum natl. d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, many collections, incl. evidently those of Ferreira. #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 199; Barnhart 1: 537; BM 2: 568; Colmeiro: p. 182; CSP 2: 595; IH 2: 195; Kew List 23 (as "Alexander"); Lasègue p. 473, 505; TL-2/1: 826. #### Biofile - Anon., Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira; catálogo de manuscritos e bibliografia,\[Rio de Janeiro\] (Divisão de Obras Raras e Publicacõ es): 162 p. 1952. (bibl.) (n.v.); Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira: Amazônia, redescoberta no século XVIII, Rio de Janeiro (Biblioteca Nacional): x, 19 p.,\[20\] lvs. pl. 1992 (bibl.) (n.v.) - Almaça, C. et al., 1992. "Viagem filosófica da Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira": ciclo de conferências, Lisboa (Academia de Marinha): 71 p. (portr.) (n.v.) - Candolle, A.L., 1880. Phytographie: 411. - Castro Faria, L. de, 1958. Inst. Nac. Pesquisas da Amazônia, Sér. "Viagem Filosófica", No. 3: 18-22.\[F. as ethnologist\] - Colmeiro y Penido, M., 1858. Bot. Penins. Hispano-Lusit.: 182. - Correa, V., 1939. A. R. Ferreira; vida e obra de grande naturalista brasileiro. 231 p. - França, C., 1922. Bol. Soc. Brot., ser. 2, 1: 65-123.\[reprint, repaginated, p. 7-65, *pl. 1-10*\] - Goeldi, E.A., 1895. Ensaio sobre o... A.R. Ferreira mormente em ralação ás suas viagems na Amazonia e sua importancia como naturalista, Para: vii, 108 p. (n.v.) - Lima, A. Pires de, 1953. O Doutor Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, Lisboa (Agencia Geral Ultramar): 1-426. (handwr.)\[Also as, Publ. Inst. Bot. Gonçalo Sampaio, ser. 2, 21: 1-426\] - Lima, A. Pires de, 1954. Anuário da Sociedade Broteriana, Ano 20: 5-10, *pl*. *1-71*.\[reprint, repaginated?\] - Lima, A. Pires de, 1954. Bol. Soc. Brot., ser. 2: 77-78, *pl. 1-2.*\[reprint repaginated, p. 1-6, *pl. 1-2*\] - Martins, E.A., 1958. Inst. Nac. Pesquisas da Amazônia, Sér. "Viagem Filosófica", No. 3: 5-9.\[F. as geologist\] - Martius, C.F.P., 1837. Flora 20(2) Beibl.: 15-17. - Mello Filho, L.E. de, 1958. Inst. Nac. Pesquisas da Amazônia, Sér. "Viagem Filosófica", No. 3: 10-17.\[F. as botanist\] - Myers, G.S., 1964. Copeia 1: 36, 38.\[ichthyological collections\] - Simon, W.J., 1983. Scientific expeditions in the Portuguese overseas territories (1783-1808) and the role of Lisbon in the intellectual-scientific community of the late Eighteenth Century, Lisboa (Instituto de investigacao cientifica tropical): 188. (index)\[Brazilian itin., fig. 3; handwr., fig. 4\](n.v.) - Urban, I., 1906. *In*, C. Martius, Fl. Bras. 1(1): 19. - Wurdack, J., 1971. Taxon 20: 595-596.\[Ferreira specimens in P misattributed to A. Bonpland\] ### Publications ##### n.34.402. Viagem filosófica **Title** *Viagem filosófica* pelas capitanias do Grão Pará, Rio Negro, Mato Grosso e Cuiabá: memórias\[vol. 3\]Zoologia, Botânica...\[Rio de Janeiro\](Conselho Federal de Cultura) 1972. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1972, 246 p., *4 pl*.\[Botanica: p. 226-242, no *pl*.\]. *Copies*: HH (n.v.), LC (n.v.), NY (n.v.), US. *Note*: This posthumously published work is based on a mss. that was sent from Portugal to Brazil in 1842, lost and subsequently rediscovered in the 1970s at the Museu Nacional of Rio de Janeiro.