Guines, was also appointed to examine the vegetable productions of the island of Cuba. All these researches, conducted during twenty years in the most fertile regions of the new continent, have not only enriched science with more than four thousand new... Political Essay on the Kingdom of New-Spain - Page 162by Alexander von Humboldt - 1811Full view - About this book
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...in Peru, New Granada, and Spain, have cost the »tate nearly three millions of frances [83,340,^;.] The city of Mexico exhibits a very interesting botanical garden, within the precincts of the viceroy's palace. — ' The principles of the new chemistry are more diffused in Mexico... | |
| English poetry - 1811 - 1054 pages
...taste for natural history among the inhabitants of the country. The city of Mexico exhibits a ver)' interesting botanical garden within the very precincts...Cervantes gives annual courses there, which are very wrll attended. This savant possesses, besides his herbáis, a rich collection of Mexican minerals.... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - Industries - 1814 - 480 pages
...vegetable productions of the island of Cuba. AH these rer searches, conducted during twenty years in the most fertile regions of the new continent, have not...Sesse, and who has pushed his laborious excursions from the kingdom of Guatimala to the north-west coast or island of Vancouver and Quadra ; and M. Echeveria,... | |
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