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M. Bonpland's contributions to the narrative included extensive collections and discoveries that augmented the vegetable riches of the Old World [1]. His researches and discoveries afford a complete picture of the botany of the equinoctial regions of America, as well as other places visited by the travelers [1]. Together with Humboldt, he made discoveries in the description of the Island of Teneriffe and the geography of its vegetation that had escaped the observation of previous travelers [1, 4].
Bonpland also authored two of the enumerated works, composing them from observations in a botanical journal containing over four thousand methodical descriptions of equinoctial plants, with only a ninth part made by Humboldt [2]. These descriptions appeared in a separate publication titled *Nova Genera et Species Plantariem*, which included new species collected by the travelers, computed to be fourteen or fifteen hundred, as well as Bonpland's interesting observations on previously imperfectly described plants [2]. His zeal and equanimity were noted amidst the fatigues and dangers faced during their travels [3].
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ascended the Andes, contributed by their discoveries and collections to augment the vegetable riches of the Old World. But, in their time, geology as a science had little or no existence. Of the structure of the giant mountains of our globe scarcely anything was understood; whilst nothing was known beneath the earth in the New World, except what related to her mines of gold and silver. It remained for Humboldt to supply all that was wanting, by the publication of his Personal Narrative. In this, more than in any other of his works, he shows his power of contemplating nature in all…
ng his travels in Spain, and a long abode at Rome, formed the richest collection of American vocabularies in existence. His extensive knowledge of the ancient and modern languages has enabled him to trace some curious analogies in relation to this subject, so important to the philosophical study of the history of man. A part of his labours will find a place in this narrative. Of the different works which I have here enumerated, the second and third were composed by M. Bonpland, from the observations which he made in a botanical journal. This journal contains more than four thousand…
he zeal and equanimity of that friend never failed, amidst the fatigues and dangers to which we were sometimes exposed. Under these favourable circumstances, traversing regions which for ages have remained almost unknown to most of the nations of Europe, I might add even to Spain, M. Bonpland and myself collected a considerable number of materials, the publication of which may throw some light on the history of nations, and advance the study of nature. I had in view a two-fold purpose in the travels of which I now publish the historical narrative. I wished to make known the countries…
dt and Bonpland which had escaped the observation of discerning travellers who had pursued the same route before them. Indeed, the whole account of the Canary Islands presents a picture which cannot be contemplated without the deepest interest, even by persons comparatively indifferent to the study of nature. It is, perhaps, scarcely necessary to remind the reader that since the time when this work was first published in Paris, the separation of the Spanish Colonies from the mother-country, together with subsequent political events, have wrought great changes in the governments of…
p at Madagascar, and return by the Cape of Good Hope. I was in Paris when the preparations for this voyage were begun. I had but little confidence in the personal character of captain Baudin, who had given cause of discontent to the court of Vienna, when he was commissioned to conduct to Brazil one of my friends, the young botanist, Van der Schott; but as I could not hope, with my own resources, to make a voyage of such extent, and view so fine a portion of the globe, I determined to take the chances of this expedition. I obtained permission to embark, with the instruments I had…