AD 334 ADANSON, Michel & FOUGEROUX [DE BONDAROY, Auguste-Denis] (1732– 1789) [Rapport des commissaires nommés par l’Académie pour lire et examiner] un mémoire de M. Antoine Laurent de Jussieu … intitulé Examen de la famille des Renoncules, 1773
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: 1773
Extent
From the Collection: 391 Volumes
Language of Materials
French
Physical Description
10 pp. 17 × 22 cm
General
Comprises the first and second draft of a report by Adanson, to be countersigned by Fougeroux, on the paper of A.-L. de Jussieu and the later “Mémoire pour servir de rapport à celui qui a été lu à l’académie le 13 fevrier 1773.” These three memoires, actually written by Adanson, belong together. The first two may represent drafts written before and after his discussions with Fougeroux. For example, Adanson’s reluctance to judge the paper of A.-L. de Jussieu, with what he is so involved is omitted from the second draft. It appears in the beginning of the third mémoire, where the priority of his own ideas is stated. In this paper Adanson states that he yielded to pressure to serve as a commissaire for A.-L. de Jussieu’s paper by the voeu of the Académie and the prières of his friend, Bernard de Jussieu.
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository