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AD 277 ADANSON, Michel Discours ou examen … sur la question y a-t-il entre les trois regnes animal, végétal et minéral des limites sensibles et distinctes: ou ces trois regnes se lient ils les uns aux autres par une chaine continue qui enfasse une unité réelle?, 1768

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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: 1768

Extent

From the Collection: 391 Volumes

Language of Materials

French

Physical Description

3 pp. 23 x 35 cm

General

The beginning of a paper to have been submitted for a prize proposed for 1770 by the Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres & Arts de Rouen as was announced in a clipping from L’Avant- coureur (10 Oct. 1768) preserved with this manuscript.

Repository Details

Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository

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