AD 391 ADANSON, Michel Monstruosités [Herbarium].
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: 1724–1848
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1764-1804
Extent
From the Collection: 391 Volumes
Language of Materials
From the Collection: French
From the Collection: Latin
General
An herbarium of 75 specimens, unmounted, in brown folders of heavy paper, averaging 26 × 45 cm. The specimens are monstrosities of plants, consisting mainly of plants with supernumerary parts (“double flowers” and similar abnormalities). [Adanson’s herbarium specimens are not at the Hunt Institute. Twenty mounted specimens are deposited in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Herbariuim (CM).]
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository