The curator of the Marimurtra herbarium, Carles Burguera, offers a lecture on the herbarium of the Jesuit Navàs

The biologist and curator of the herbarium of the Marimurtra Botanical Garden, Carles Burguera, will offer a conference on September 21st on the study of the herbarium carried out in Cassà de la Selva by the Jesuit P. Longí Navàs SJ (Cabassers, El Priorat 1858 – Girona, 1938).

This herbarium has been preserved in the Sant Ignasi-Jesuïtes College of Sarrià, in Barcelona, ​​and provides 335 new data on specimens collected between 1936 and 1938, of which 13 first mentions of non-native species cultivated in Spain stand out.

 

Longí Navàs was one of the great European naturalists of the first half of the 20th century, standing out above all in the study of insects. At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, Navàs found refuge in Cassà de la Selva together with two other monks, where he prepared these herbaria. His authorship was confirmed thanks to a visit made by Navàs’ niece, Rosa Maria Massip, to the Marimurtra Botanical Garden during which she shared a handwritten letter from Longí that has been key to attributing authorship to him.

The talk by Carles Burguera, which will take place on Saturday, September 21 at 11:30 a.m. at Can Trinxeria in Cassà de la Selva, is included in the 5th cycle of conferences organized by the Cassà de la Selva Municipal Archive.

The activity will be complemented by a botanical excursion around Cassà and a workshop to learn the methodologies of collecting plants and making a herbarium.