AD 298 ADANSON, Michel Méthode de M. de Lamarck, 1779
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: 1779
Extent
From the Collection: 391 Volumes
Language of Materials
French
Physical Description
27 pp. + newspaper clipping in paper cover. 11 x 17 cm
General
A manuscript of a critique of Lamarck’s Flore Françoise, of which a report by the commissaires at the Académie was read 6 February 1779. Much or all of this very critical manuscript was written by Adanson within a week of the session. Yet the book as a whole (especially the Approbation) could not have been ready at that time; the accompanying clipping, dated 28 Mars 1779, states that Lamarck presented a copy to the king and queen on 21 March.
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository