AD 137 ADANSON, [Michel], Paris, 17 Juin 1775. 3 pp. To Mr. Robillart, Négociant, [Paris], “Pour mettre s’il lui pl[ait] à M. Le Grand.”, 17 June 1775
Content Description
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: 17 June 1775
Extent
From the Collection: 391 Volumes
Language of Materials
French
General
An answer to a Prospectus for the Bibliothéque de Medécine, and for which Robillart apparently asked Adanson for biographical information. The poor treatment given by some authors of similar works to such requests caused Adanson to forget himself and to leave to posterity his distinctions between three types of scholars: (1) those who have the genius of invention and method, (2) those who have only the method, and (3) those who are only compilers. Nevertheless, Adanson sent a sketch of ideas of interest to him and of which truth will be the only merit, together with a sketch of his life and ideas, stressing his méthode naturelle.
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository