AD 270 ADANSON, Michel Froid où les végétaux comencent à soufrir et périssent en 1766, 1766–1776
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: 1766–1776
Extent
From the Collection: 391 Volumes
Language of Materials
French
Physical Description
2 pp. 10.5 x 16.5 cm
General
Adanson’s observations on the effect of low temperatures on plants during the period of 1765 to 1767, placed in a large folio cover of a later date with a heading indicating his plan to prepare a paper on this for the Académie, which apparently was not done.
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository