ANTONIO JOSE

See also:

• ANTONIO JOSE CAVANILLES (1745–1804)

CAVANILLES (1745–1804)  , Spanish botanist, was born at Valencia on the 16th of January 1745 . He was educated at the university of that town, and in 1777 went to Paris, where he resided twelve years, engaged in the study of botany . In 18o1 he became director of the botanic gardens at Madrid, where he died on the 4th of May 1804 . In 1785–1786 he published Monadelphiae Classis Dissertations X., and in 1791 he began to issue Icones et descriptiones plantarum Hispaniae . His nephew, ANTONIO CAVANILLES (1805–1864), was a distinguished advocate, and the author of a history of Spain, published at Madrid in 1860–1864 .