AD 338 ADANSON, Michel & FOUGEROUX [DE BONDAROY, Auguste-Denis] Raport [sic] [des] commissaires nommés par l’Acad[émie pour lire] un mém[oire] de M. Desfontaines sur un nouveau genre de plante corymbifère de la famille des Composées, n.d.

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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: n.d.

Extent

From the Collection: 391 Volumes

Language of Materials

French

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Physical Description

1 p. 11 x 17 cm

General

Adanson’s first draft of a Mémoire on a new genus; Adanson proposed a new Latin name for this genus in honor of Desfontaines. Dated “Fait au Louvre ce___–1779.”