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AD 135 ADANSON, [Michel], [Paris, n.d.]. 2 pp., n.d.

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Content Description

From the Collection:

The Michel Adanson Library at Hunt Institute includes the botanical portion of Adanson's personal library, along with correspondence, manuscripts, and a large number of plant illustrations clipped from published sources. The collection contains 127 book titles, 117 letters, 146 manuscripts and thousands of plant images clipped from published works, many of them annotated by him. (copied from https://www.huntbotanical.org/library/show.php?1)

Dates

  • Creation: n.d.

Extent

From the Collection: 391 Volumes

Language of Materials

French

General

Draft of letter to Guettard, member of the Académie. Having read the memoir of M. … sur l’arction [i.e. Arctium] of Dioscorides, M. Adanson notes that the author neglected to make some of the corrections, additions, and cancels indicated [by Adanson], and that his conclusion contradicts what Adanson had told him. Adanson returns the memoir to Guettard as unfit for presentation to the Académie, asking him to consider the objections raised and to accept the rejection he will request of the Académie as rapporteur of this paper. 26 Accompanied by two leaves (3 pp.) of Adanson’s description of the genus and one species of [Arctium]. Originally filed in Dictionnaire de botanique under Arction.

Repository Details

Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository

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