> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 548](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355635) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/6574-1) LSID 6574-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55068526) QID Q55068526 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Molina, Giovanni Ignazio (orig. Juan Ignacio) (1737-1829), Chilean jesuit priest, missionary, botanist and plant collector; to Italy 1768; professor of natural sciences Bologna 1774. **Abbreviated name**: *Molina* \[standard form in IPNI: *Molina*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown; some material at [[Collection BOLO|BOLO]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(1): 335; Barnhart 2: 503; BM 3: 1334, 7: 856; Bossert p. 271; Colmeiro 1: clxxxix; CSP 4: 432; Dryander 1: 257; DSB 9: 458; Frank 3(Anh.): 67; Hegi 1: 277, 5: 775; Hortus 3: 1200 (,,Mol."); IH 2: 548; Jackson p. 374; Kew 4: 32; PR 6362 (ed. 1: 7074); Rehder 5: 583; RS p. 120; Saccardo 1: 111, 2: 74; SO add. 791c; Tucker 1: 494; Zander ed. 10, p. 693, ed. 11, p. 791. - Anon., Anal. Soc. Ci. Argent. 70: 269-274. 1910 (bibl.). - Carpenter, M. M., Amer. Midl. Natural. 33(1): 70. 1935 (biogr., refs.). - Chacon del Campo, J., Rev. chil. Hist. nat. 33: 214-216, 1929 (birth). - Gilbert, P., Comp. biogr. lit. deceased entom. 261-262. 1977. - Fontecilla, A., Rev. chil. Hist. nat. 33: 223-225. 1929 (M. & Parmentier). - Gunckel, H., Ciencias, Bol. Univ. Chile 71/72: 46-53. 1966 (sources for bot. part Saggio) Revista Univ., Univ. catol. Chile 50-51 (1): 3-5. 1966 (An. Acad. Chil. Ci. nat. 28-29: 3-5. 1966). See also Rev. chil. Hist. nat. 33: 428-453. 1929 (bibl.). - Hernandez, J., Rev. chil. Hist. nat. 44: 2-3. 1940 (dedic). - Jaramillo Barriga, R., El abate Juan Ignacio Molina, Santiago de Chile 1963; Revista Univ., Univ. Cat. Chile 52: 85-99. 1967 (An. Acad. Chil. Ci. nat. 30: 85-99. 1967 (on M's Memorie di storia naturale, 1821, 1822)). - Jessen, K. F. W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 467. 1864. - Keefe, Biologist 48(3-4): 53. 1966. - Liebermann, J., Physis 10:316-321. 1931 (centenary of his death). - Looser, G., Bibl. bot. Chil. 1927 (n.v., fide Verdoorn 1945); Chron. bot. 6(11): 250. 1941 (bicent.). - Mackenna, B. V. & F. S. Astaburuaga, Anal. Univ. Chile 17: 600-634. 1860 (biogr., b. 24 Jun 1737, d. 12 Sep 1829). - Medina, J. F., Rev. chil. Hist. nat. 33: 169-170. 1929 (parents). - Muñoz Pizarro, C., El. Mercurio, Chile, 26 Apr 1970, p. 7. - O'Ryan, E., Revista chil. Hist nat. 6(1): 3-4. 1902 (portr., bibl.). - Philippi, R. A., Bot. Zeit. 22 \[Beil.\]: 1-24. 1864 (commentary on Saggio). - Poggendorff, J. C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 177. 1863. - Poiret, J. L. M., Enc. méth., Bot. 8: 741. 1808. - Puga Borne, F., Rev. chil. Hist. nat. 33: 7-14. 1929 (dedication). - Reiche, K., Grundz. Pfl.-Verbr. Chile 6-8, 36. 1907 (Veg. Erde 8). - Turrill, W. B., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1920: 58-59. #### Memorial volume Revista Chilena de Historia natural, vol. 44. 1940 (dedication by J. Hernandez on p. 2-3; portr. on p. 1). #### Eponymy *Molina* Cavanilles (1790); *Molina* Ruiz & Pavon (1794); *Molina* Gay (1851-1852); *Molinia* Schrank (1789); *Moliniopsis* Hayata (1925); *Neomolinia* Honda et Sakisaka ex Honda (1930). *Notes*: *Molinadendron* Endress (1969) is dedicated to Antonio Molina Rositto (1926-x), Honduran botanist. *Molinaea* Commerson ex A. L. Jussieu (1789) is dedicated to Jean Des Moulins (Johannes Molinaeus) (1530-1622), French physician and botanist, pupil of Dalechamps and Rondelet at Montpellier, who translated the former's *Historia generalis plantarum* into French (cf. TL-2/1297). *Molineria* Colla (1826), *Molineria* Parlatore (1850) and *Molineriella* Rouy (1913) commemorate Ignazio Bernardo Molineri (1741-1818), Italian botanist, director of the botanical garden in Torino. #### Postage stamps Chile 2 e. (1968) yv. 326; 1 e, (1968) yv. av. 247. ### Publications ##### n.6205. Compendio della storia geografica, naturale **Title** *Compendio della storia geografica, naturale*, e civile del Regno del Chile. Bologna (nella Stampería di S. Tommaso d'Aquino...) 1776. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Comp. storia Chile*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1776 (imprimatur 5 Feb 1776), p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-245, \[246, impr.\], *pl. 1-10*, 2 maps. *Copy*: NY. – Precursor of Saggio. ##### n.6206. Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili **Title** *Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili* del signor Abate Giovanni Ignazio Molina. In Bologna (Nella Stamperia di S. Tommaso d'Aquino...) 1782. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Sag. stor. nat. Chili*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 12 Oct- 31 Oct 1782 (impr.: 12 Oct 1781), p. \[1\]-367, \[368, err., impr.\], map. *Copy*: NY. – See Philippi (1864) for a commentary. *Ed. 2*: 1810, frontisp. portr. Molina, p. \[i\*-vi\*\], i-v, 1-306, \[1-2, err.\], map. *Copies*: FI, NY.– see Philippi (1864) (id.). *German*: 1786, p. \[i-xiv\], \[1\]-328, 1 map. *Copy*: MO. – *Versuch einer Naturgeschichte von Chili*... aus dem Italiänischen übersetzt, von J. D. Brandis,..." Leipzig (bey Friedrich Gotthold Jacobäer) 1786. Oct. (*Vers. Naturgesch. Chili*). (Joachim Dietrich Brandis 1762-?). *French*: 1789, p. \[i\]-xvi, \[1\]-351, \[352\]. *Copies*: FI, MO, NY; IDC 5451. – *Essai sur l'histoire naturelle du Chili*... traduit de l'Italien, & enrichi de notes, par M. Gruvel, D. M. À Paris (Chez Neé de la Rochelle,...) 1789. Oct. (*Essai hist. nat. Chili*). *Spanish*: 1788-1795, 2 vols. *Copy*: UC. – "*Compendio de la historia geografica, naturaly civil del reyno de Chile*, escrito en italiano... traducida en español por Don Domingo Joseph \[vol. 2: por Don Nicolas de la Cruz y Bahamonde\] en Madrid" (en la imprenta de Sancha) 1788, 1795. Oct. (*Comp. hist. nat. Chile*). Inf. R. Schmid. *1*: 1788, p. \[i\]-xx, 1-418. *2*: 1795, frontisp., \[i\]-xvi, map, 1-382, \[384\], 3 charts. *English* (1): 1808, 2 vols. *Copies*: NY, UC. – "*The geographical, natural and civil history of Chili*. By abbe don J. Ignatius Molina. Illustrated by a half-sheet map of the country. With notes from the Spanish and French versions, and an appendix, containing copious extracts from the Araucana of Don Alonzo de Ercilla. Translated from the original Italian, by an American gentleman... Middletown (Conn.) (printed for I. Riley) 1808. Oct. (in fours). (*Geogr. nat. hist. Chile*). *1*: 1808 (registered 11 Aug 1808), p. \[i\*-viii\*\], \[i\]-xii, map, \[1\]-271, \[1\]. *2*: 1808, p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-305, \[306, err.\]. *Appendix*: 1808, \[i\]-iv, \[5\]-68. "An appendix to the civil and political history of Chili, consisting of a sketch of the Araucana of Don Alonzo de Ercilla... New York (published by Alsop, Brannan and Alsop,...) 1808. Oct. (in fours). *Facsimile ed*: s.d., AMS Press. *Copy*: MICH. *English*(*2*): 1809, 2 vols. *Copies*: MICH, MO, NY. – "*The geographical, natural, and civil history of Chile*. Translated from the original Italian... to which are added, notes from the Spanish and French versions, and two appendices, by the English editor; the first, an account of the archipelago of Chiloe,... P. F. Pedro Gonzalez de Agueros; the second, an account of the native tribes... from Falkner's description of Patagonia... \[London\] (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme,...) 1809. Oct. *1*: 1809, p. \[i\]-xx, \[1\]-321, map. *2*: 1809, p. \[i\]-xii, \[1\]-385.