AD 218 MONTEHERMOSO, M[arqués de] (Colonel in the Spanish cavalry), Cadix, 17 Decembre 1770. 4 pp., 17 December 1770
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 December 1770
Extent
From the Collection: 391 Volumes
Language of Materials
French
General
Sends a work of Miguel Barnades; mentions the favorable judgment of Adanson on the first volume of the Mémoires de la Société de Biscaye; discusses marl at length, and the fodder plant alfalfa briefly. Reply written on back, dated “12 janvier 1771.”
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository