. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . he following year professor ofzoology in the University of Leipsic, which posthe held till his death. He also contributed to theestablishment of a scientific museum in the lattercity, and bequeathed to it his collections. Hepublished Reise nach Chili, Peru, und auf demAmazoneu-Flusse (2 vols., Leipsic, 1835); Novagenera ac Species plantarum quas in regno, Chi-liensi, Peruviano, ac Terra Amazonica. anni 1827-1832 lectarum (3 vols., 1835-45); Reise nach denVereinigten Staaten (1837); and Landschaft-liche Ansichten und erlauternde Darstellungen(183
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . he following year professor ofzoology in the University of Leipsic, which posthe held till his death. He also contributed to theestablishment of a scientific museum in the lattercity, and bequeathed to it his collections. Hepublished Reise nach Chili, Peru, und auf demAmazoneu-Flusse (2 vols., Leipsic, 1835); Novagenera ac Species plantarum quas in regno, Chi-liensi, Peruviano, ac Terra Amazonica. anni 1827-1832 lectarum (3 vols., 1835-45); Reise nach denVereinigten Staaten (1837); and Landschaft-liche Ansichten und erlauternde Darstellungen(1830). Poeppig also wrote most of the Americanarticles for the Allgemeine Encyclopaedic, editedby Ersch and Griiber. POEY, Felipe (po-ay), Cuban naturalist, b. inHavana, 26 May, 1799 ; d. there, 28 Jan., 1891. of French and Spanish parentage. He madehis studies in his native city, concluding them inthe University of Madrid, where he was graduatedin law. Having a taste for natural history, heabandoned his practice as a lawyer, and began the. study of mollusks, insects, and fishes. In 1825 hesailed for Cuba, and thence, with a collection ofspecimens, for Paris. There he aided in found-ing, in 1827, the Societe entomologique, andcontributed notes and drawings to the flistoirenaturelle des 1833 he returned toHavana and devoted him-self to the study of natu-ral history, making draw-ings of specimens withhis associate, Juan Gund-lach (</. c.), and discover-ing many new specieswhich are included inPfeiffers ; MonographiaHeliceorum 1842 Poey was appoint-ed professor of compara-tive anatomy and zoologyin the University of Ha-vana, and from 1851 till1860 he published at in-tervals his Historia Na-tural de la Isla de Cuba(2 vols., 1860). In 1863 he was appointed to thechair of botany, mineralogy, and geology, and from1868 till 1875 he published in the RepertorioFisico-Natural de la Isla de Cuba, and reprintedin the Anales de la Sociedad de Historia Natural
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