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Question: Sarawak Gazette : Death of Dr. Odoardo Beccari, 31st December 1920 (Volume Number : L, Issue Number : 808)

Answer: Odoardo Beccari was a famous Italian naturalist who discovered the giant corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum). He was born on 16th Novemver 1843 in Florence. After finishing his studies at university in Pisa and Bologna, he left for London to study natural history at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew where he met many of Britains’s famous naturalists, from William Jackson Hooker and Joseph Dalton Hooker to Charles Darwin and became close friends with James Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak. He accepted his support in launching an expedition to the Indonesian Archipelago and left for Sarawak with fellow Italian naturalist Giacomo Doria (1965-1868). They travelled through the region for the next three years collecting plants and animals. His death on the 25th October 1920 at Firenze, Italy was announced in the Gazette.

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