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May 18, 2018 · views 1,859,447 updated Jun 27 2018. Adanson, Michel (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.
Sep 14, 2023 · Translated by Sam Taylor. In one of many poignant moments in David Diop’s third novel (his second translated into English), Michel Adanson, a dying French botanist, leaves his daughter, Aglaé,...
Aug 3, 2020 · Mind Behind Mutation. Today is the anniversary of the death of the 18th-century Scottish-French botanist and naturalist Michel Adanson. Michel created the first natural classification of flowering plants. In fact, Jussieu ("Juice You") adopted Michel's methodology to create his masterpiece that defined plant groups called Genera Plantarum (1789).
The French botanist Michel Adanson spent five years in precolonial Senegal in the 1750s, under the auspices of the Compagnie des Indes. This essay follows the archival traces of Adanson’s engagement with African indigo, including experiments conducted in an ad hoc “laboratory” near the French fort of Saint Louis.
Adanson: The Bicentennial of Michel Adanson's Familles des Plantes (Online) Edited by George H. M. Lawrence. 1963–1964. 2 parts in 2 vols. Set in Spectrum monotype and printed on Curtis Hunt no. 2 paper.
Adanson, Michel (1727-1806) French botanist. Michel Adanson was the son of the equerry to the Archbishop of Aix-en Provence. His family moved to Paris in 1730 when his father's employer assumed responsibility for the archdiocese. He was destined from an early age for the priesthood and, through his connections to the Church, was provided with a ...
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. Roy A. Hunt purchased this collection for the Hunt Botanical Library in 1961, making additional purchases in 1962.
