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AD 291 ADANSON, Michel Nouvelles expériences sur la réproduction, sur le mouvement oscillatoire, et sur quelques autres qualités et propriétés de la plante appelée Tremella, [1775–1776]

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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: [1775–1776]

Extent

From the Collection: 391 Volumes

Language of Materials

French

Physical Description

4 pp. 18.5 x 24.5 cm

General

An unfinished paper for the Académie on the properties of Algae, of which an earlier draft was written on the same leaf with a copy of a letter to Bonaventure Corti dated 10 July 1775. It contains Adanson’s opinion that “revival” of the Tremella is not a “revivification” but a germination from detached parts, comparable to that from seeds.

Repository Details

Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository

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