AD 360 GRAND-JEAN DE FOUCHY, Jean-Paul Extrait des registres de l’Acad[émie] Royale des Sciences du 4 Mars 1775, 9 March 1775
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: 9 March 1775
Extent
From the Collection: 391 Volumes
Language of Materials
French
Physical Description
1 p. Ca. 16.5 x 21 cm
General
An unpublished certificate concerning Adanson’s plan for an Encyclopédie, read at the Académie in 1775. The committee nominated to study Adanson’s manuscripts considered the plan desirable and recognized the usefulness of such an encyclopedia of natural history. Reports 68 that Adanson is advised to begin to publish the account of his voyages, for which government support is invited.
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository