CORREA DA SERRA, JOSE FRANCISCO 1823), Portuguese politician and man of science, was one of the founders of the Portuguese Academy of Sciences, of which he was named perpetual secretary. He came into conflict with the Holy Office, and had to leave the country, taking refuge in Paris, London and finally New York. In 1816 he was made Portuguese minister plenipotentiary at Washington, and in 1820 he was recalled home, appointed a member of the financial council, and elected to a seat in the tortes. Correa da Serra was a good botanist, but his prin cipal claim to fame is the Coleccdo de livros ineditos da historia Portugueza (4 vols., 1790-1816), an invaluable selection of docu ments, exceedingly well edited.