AD 323 ADANSON, Michel Memoire sur les monstruosités dans les plantes et sur les moyens d’avoir des fleurs doubles, n.d.
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: n.d.
Extent
From the Collection: 391 Volumes
Language of Materials
French
Physical Description
1 p. [written on the back of a playing card, in a paper cover]. 5.5 × 9 cm
General
A note of an experiment to be made to produce double flowers. The cover’s inscription indicates that Adanson planned to prepare a Mémoire for the Académie on monstrosities among plants. Béguillet’s letter [AD 161] was originally filed here.
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository