Royal Botanical Expedition to New Spain (Sessé and Mociño, 1787-1803) and its botanical chair in Mexico City

The third and least-known of the crown's American botanical expeditions, ordered in 1787 under Martin Sesse with the charge of founding a botanical garden in Mexico City. Its teaching chair opened in the university in May 1788, its first Mexican pupils became its own botanists, and its printed public examinations record an indigenous cacique passing pharmacy in 1794. Its results were not printed until a century later, in Mexico.