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Observations, systematical and geographical, on the herbarium collected by Professor Christian Smith, in the vicinity of the Congo : ウィキペディア英語版 | Observations, systematical and geographical, on the herbarium collected by Professor Christian Smith, in the vicinity of the Congo
''Observations, systematical and geographical, on the herbarium collected by Professor Christian Smith, in the vicinity of the Congo'', during the expedition to explore that river, under the command of Captain Tuckey, in the year 1816, also published as Observations, systematical and geographical, on Professor Christian Smith's collection of plants from the vicinity of the River Congo, is an 1818 paper written by Robert Brown on the botany of tropical Africa. It is significant for its contributions to plant systematics, and to African floristics and phytogeography. == Background ==
In 1816, an exploration party under the command of James Kingston Tuckey was sent to Africa to establish whether the stretches of river then named the Niger River and the Congo River were one river or two. 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''). The botanical assistant, David Lockhart, survived, and eventually returned a collection of around 600 plant species to Joseph Banks. Banks turned the collection over to Brown to arrange it, and see what might be published based on it. Brown compiled a small flora, preparing several hundred names for publication, but the manuscript was never published, and only a few names were published elsewhere. However, Brown also prepared a paper of more general observations. Entitled ''Observations, systematical and geographical, on the herbarium collected by Professor Christian Smith, in the vicinity of the Congo, during the expedition to explore that river, under the command of Captain Tuckey, in the year 1816'', this appeared first as Appendix V of the official account of Tuckey's expedition, published posthumously under Tuckey's name in 1818, as ''Narrative of an expedition to explore the River Zaire''.〔
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