AD 208 LEFEBURE DESHAYE [RES, Chevalier] Tivoli, quartier de la nouvelle Plymouth, par laville des Cayes dufond-de-Lisle-de-vache, partie de Sud de S[ai]n[t-] Domingue [Haiti], le 16 aout 1778. 4 pp., 16 August 1778
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: 16 August 1778
Extent
From the Collection: 391 Volumes
Language of Materials
French
General
Reports on difficulties of studying botany and medicinal properties of tropical American plants; sends drawings and descriptions. Draft of reply, dated 24 Avril 1779 scribbled on back and front, discusses about five genera.
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository