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Boletim
Informativo da Brigada de Fomento Agro-Pecuário
de São Tomé
e Príncipe
This journal was published by the still extant agricultural
research station at Poto from 1967 until 1974.
Boyd
Alexander in São Tomé,
Príncipe and
Annobon
Extracts from Herbert Alexander's book Boyd Alexanders Last
Journey concerning his visit to the islands.
Boyd
Alexander in Bioko (Link)
Boyd Alexander's earlier expedition to Bioko from
his ornithological papers.
Julio
Henriques 1917 - “A ilha de S. Tomé
sob o ponto de vista historico-natural e agricola”
(Link)
Extracts from Henriques' fascinating summary of the natural
history and culture of São Tomé at the beginning of
the 20th century.
Cable
and Wireless discovers new molluscs and plants
The Cable and Wireless stations on both
São
Tomé and Príncipe provided immeasurable
support to several visiting naturalists – the station managers
were even noted for collecting new species.
Glimpses
of Feverland - São
Tomé e Príncipe
in the 1880s
The first submarine
cables giving telecommunications connections between many African
cities and the rest of the world were laid in the 19th
century. These pages were written by A. P. Crouch, an engineer
laying the submarine cable from Senegal to Angola
Francisco
Newton - Cartas da Nova Atlantida
A fascinating website about the Portuguese explorer and
naturalist Francisco Newton who spent ten years in the islands of
the Gulf of Guinea from 1885-1895 and discovered many of the
islands' endemic species. Contains many of his letters to Bocage,
a chronology of his travels, and an extensive
bibliography.
Dendroaspis
jamesoni in São Tomé.19th
century reports of the presence of the green mamba on the island
of São Tomé are researched through the works of
Fischer, Moller, Newton, Bocage and Fea. From the same authors of
the works on Newton and Boyd Alexander.
O
Paraíso do Café:
Helder Lains e Silva Photos
and text extracts from Helder Lains e Silva's exellent work São
Tomé e Príncipe e a cultura do café
published in 1958. From the
same site as the pages on Newton and Boyd Alexander.
Augusto
Nobre - Conchas
terrestres e marinhas recolhidas pelo Sr. Adolpho Moller na ilha
de S. Thomé em 1885
Terrestrial
and marine shells collected by Adolpho Moller in São
Tomé. Published in the Boletim
da Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa, 4, 1886.
J.
P. Chapin – The Olive Ibis of Dubus and its representative on
São Thomé
The first description of São Tomé's Dwarf Olive
Ibis published in American Museum Novitates in 1923. Online
version.
J.
P. Chapin – The Olive Ibis of Dubus and its representative on
São Thomé
As above. PDF format.
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