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Adanson, Michel

Subject ID: 5738

Last Name: Adanson
First Name: Michel
Birth Date: 7 April 1727
Birth Place: Aix en Provence, France
Death Date: 3 August 1806
Death Place: Paris, France
Gender: male
HI Archives Collection #: 52, #136
Other Holdings: GAC -letter from Linnaeus to Adanson, 1754. GACO -letter from Broussonet. Bibliotheque de L’Institut de France - unpublished dissertation on Adanson. Burgerbibliothek, Bern, Switzerland - 4 letters to Haller. Newberry Library - MS coll. See p. 93 of EC of Conservatoire Botanique de Genève (198).
Notes: #52 -personal papers; see published inventory & online FA. Genealogical table and portrait in oversized dr. 31. #136 -letter to Haller, 11773 & MS corrections.

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Alternate Names

  • Adanson, M.
  • Adanson, Michel

Specialties

Botany, Naturalism, Taxonomy