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AD 335 ADANSON, Michel & FOUGEROUX [DE BONDAROY, Auguste-Denis] [Rapport des commissaires nommés par l’Académie pour lire et examiner] un Mémoire de M. Descemet … intitulé: Nouvelles découvertes sur la structure des organes de la génération de différentes espèces d’Apocins de Periploca et d’Asclepias de Tournefort, et sur la manière dont se fait l’acte de génération dans ces fleurs, 1779

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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: 1779

Extent

From the Collection: 391 Volumes

Language of Materials

French

Physical Description

9 pp. 11 × 17, 17 × 22 cm

General

Comprises Adanson’s first and second draft of a report for the Académie, for which Fougeroux was commissaire also, but without any indication that the original was signed by the latter. Annotated: “Fait au Louvre ce Fevrier 1779.” The second draft has some deletions.

Repository Details

Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository

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