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Michel Adanson (7 April 1727 – 3 August 1806) was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who traveled to Senegal to study flora and fauna. He proposed a "natural system" of taxonomy distinct from the binomial system forwarded by Linnaeus .
Apr 3, 2024 · Michel Adanson (born April 7, 1727, Aix-en-Provence, Fr.—died Aug. 3, 1806, Paris) was a French botanist who devised a natural system of classification and nomenclature of plants, based on all their physical characteristics, with an emphasis on families.
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Michel Adanson. (1727—1806) Quick Reference. (1727–1806) A French botanist and plant collector, who worked as a clerk to a trading mission in Senegal, where he discovered many plants that were previously unknown. In the 1750s he returned to France with a large collection of plants and seeds.
Jul 17, 2014 · After a necessary biographical and historical survey, the author analyzes the expedition that the naturalist Michel Adanson (1727-1806) undertook in Senegal from 1749 to 1754.
- Xavier Carteret
- 2012
May 18, 2018 · Paris, France, 3 August 1806) natural history philosophy. Adanson belonged to an Auvergne family that moved to Provence at the beginning of the eighteenth century and to Paris about 1730. He was educated at the Plessis Sorbon, the Collège Royal, and Jardin du Roi.
Michel. Last name. Adanson. Initials. M. Life Dates. 1727 - 1806. Collecting Dates. 1749 - 1754. Specification. Plant collector. Groups collected. Algae. Fungi. Pteridophytes. Spermatophytes. Organisation (s) P (main), BM, G, K, P-JU, P-LA. Countries. Tropical Africa: Gambia, Senegal. Associate (s) Comp. Ind. Orient. (1664-1769) (employee)
Journ. Mamm. 25: 91-92. ADANSON - THE FIRST NEO-ADANSONIAN ? M. Jacobs (Leiden) Michel Adanson (1727-1806) has always been a curiosity of botanical science. Would. he now be looked upon as the father of modern taxonomy if that outspoken talent. for success had been his instead of Linnaeus's?
