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4 unusual facts about Christen Smith


Anacardiaceae

Robert Brown described a subset of Terebintaceae called Cassuvlæ or Anacardeæ in 1818, using the herbarium that was collected by Christen Smith during a fated expedition headed by James Kingston Tuckey to explore the River Congo.

Christian Smith

Christen Smith (1785–1816), Norwegian naturalist, whose name is sometimes spelled Christian Smith or Chretien Smith

Morten Wormskjold

In 1807, he accompanied Hornemann and the Norwegian botanist Christen Smith on a trip to Norway to collect plant specimens to support descriptions and form the basis of illustrations intended for the grand plate work Flora Danica, at that time edited by Hornemann.

Observations, systematical and geographical, on the herbarium collected by Professor Christian Smith, in the vicinity of the Congo

The expedition failed dismally: within a few months of reaching the river, many of the party were dead, including Tuckey and the expedition botanist Christen Smith (also known as Christian Smith and Chetian Smith).



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