AD 343 ADANSON, Michel & JUSSIEU, [Bernard] de [Rapport des commissaires nommés par l’Académie pour lire] les déclaration et procès verbaux et examin[er] les feuilles et fruits de géroflier et des muscadiers accompagnées d’une lettre [en date du 16 Juillet 1772] par laquelle 65 M. Poivre intendant des iles de France et de Bourbon demande à l’Académie son jugement pour constater la vérité de sa decouverte de ces deux Epiceries fines, et pour rendre authentique la plantation qu’il en a fait faire aux iles de France et de Bourbon, et à cellos de Seichelles, 1773

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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: 1773

Extent

From the Collection: 391 Volumes

Language of Materials

French

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Physical Description

4 pp. 19 × 23 cm + 1 small leaf.

General

Adanson’s draft of a report on documentation of the introduction of clove and nutmeg to the East African islands from the Moluccas. The documents were deposited at the Académie; the specimens were described by Adanson as identical with others from Banda. Read at the Académie on 17 February 1773.