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Reply possibly begun on first page and the complete reply is on a separate small paper of 4
pages, dated “22 mai 1771.”
AD 220 MOUTANDOUIN,____(écuyer), Nantes, 20 mars 1779. 3 pp.
Mentions a letter of LeFebure Deshaies, S. Dominique (see AD 208), and asks how to send
materials to Paris.
Reply written on 3rd page, dated “24 avril 1779.” Moutandouin was a Membre correspondant of
the Académie.
AD 221 MUTIS, J[osé] C[elestino] (1732–1808), Madrid, 30 Juin 1760.
Answers a letter from Adanson, writing that he will keep the instructions, and subsequent
developments, secret and transmit them only to Adanson; mentions need for six thermometers.
With this letter of Mutis is a draft of Adanson’s original letter to him, referring to an expedition
to South America (Colombia), where Mutis spent much of his life developing the natural
sciences of medicine and botany.
AD 222 MUTIS, J[osé] C[elestino], Santa Fé de Bogota [Colombia], 9 Août 1764. 5 pp.
Reports the six thermometers not received. Used one from London, divided according to
Fahrenheit. Gives meterological information and data on an earthquake.
Annotated.
AD 223 NECKER, [Noel] J[oseph] de (1729–1793), Mannheim, ce 12
e
Fevr. 1771. 4 pp.
Sends Adanson his book on mosses [AD 100] and discusses moss reproduction.
AD 224 NECKER, [Noel Joseph] de, Mannheim, ce 1
e
avril 1771. 3 pp.
Announces sending Adanson his Methodus muscorum [AD 100] and the longer accompanying
letter [AD 223].
AD 225 NOGARET, [Francois-] Félix (1740–1831), [Paris], 1 Ventose an 8 [20 February 1800].
1 p.
Asks for Adanson’s short and considered opinion on the place of the mosses as bridging the
separation between the vegetable and the mineral kingdom.
Draft of reply is to two questions of Nogaret on the same leaf, dated 21 fevrier 1800. To the first
question, Adanson answers that he believes the Dendrites to have originated from sulfureous,
bituminous or even metallic vapours in the fissures of stones, to be closest to the vegetable
kingdom because they resemble mosses. The mosses, from the plant side, approach the minerals
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by being of a drier, less “ligneuse” substance and without losing their structure in fire. The
second question answered by Adanson is: If the kernel of a garden peach produces only a wild
race of peach, from whence came the first peaches with fruits of all degrees of quality up to the
most excellent? Adanson replies that the common opinion must be rectified: by sowing each year
kernels of the same peach-, apricot-, prune- and cherry-trees etc., one will get nearly as many
fruit varieties as is the number of kernels sown; but that by grafting the best, one may conserve
and ameliorate by degrees to the highest possible perfection. This, he writes, is based on his
experience with melons of which he recognizes 92,000 possible combinations.
AD 226 NOGARET, [François-] Félix, [Paris], 16 Fructidor an 8 [3 September 1800]. 1 p.
Asks Adanson if he is mistaken in thinking that all irritable plants are of American origin and
that there are no original plants of this group in Europe. Thinks this because Adanson
distinguished between the viscous flycatchers and the sensitive plants. Asks especially about “les
plantes mimoses.”
Draft of reply on separate leaf, dated “4 7bre [Nov.] 1800.” Adanson replies yes, mon cher
Anakréon, that he is wrong in thinking that all irritable plants or “mimoses” originate from
America, and elaborates on this answer. Thus making it clear that Nogaret sought information for
a novel on ancient Greece.
AD 227 [NOGARET, François-Félix], [Paris], 8 Messidor an 9 [27 juin 1801]. 1 p.
Reports he was requested to hand Adanson the “Carte de Botanique” [AD 48] but has not the
time to do it himself.
No annotations except date added by Adanson. The pseudonym “Aristenète” was identified by
Adanson in an annotation in the book.
AD 228 PARMENTIER, [Antoine-Augustin] (1737–1813)
“Notice des Titres que Ecrivit M. Parmentier Censeur Roial, et Professeur de l’Ecole de
Boulangerie, pour Reclamer en sa faveur l’indulgence de l’Académie.”
Addressed to the Académie. Contains an enumeration of his publications from 1774–1779.
Accompanied by a note asking Adanson to support his application “pour la place vacante dans la
classe de botanique et d’agriculture.”
AD 229 ROYER,____, Paris, 29 8bre [October] 1786. 3 pp.
Concerns 1,200 copper-plates of an exotic herbal, moreover plates of Plumier’s American plants;
asks for a meeting with Adanson.
Annotated. A meeting was agreed on but never materialized.
AD 230 ROZIER, [François] (1734–1793), Paris, 28 juin 1771.
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Sends wash-drawings of different grape varieties to Adanson and asks for the botanical “word
and phrase” that characterizes them; asks names of moths that damage grapes.
AD 231 SCHOULEMBOURG,____, Baron de Bourg Scheidegg, [Saxony], 12 Mars 1767.
Thanks Adanson for the kindness received during his stay in Paris, and sends him seeds of Polish
cereal grains.
Draft of reply dated “4 mai 1767.”
AD 232 SCHREBER, [Johann Christian Daniel] (1739–1810), Leipzig, 20 Janv. 1768. 1 p.
Reports that M. de Schoulembourg has talked about Adanson in such a way that Schreber does
not hesitate to take the liberty to write Adanson of it. Is working on a paper on grasses, for which
the plates are being engraved by a “trés habile graveur” Crusius; asks Adanson for seed or
specimens of Zizania aquatica.
Draft of reply dated “13 Mars 1768.”
AD 233 SCHREBER, [Johann Christian Daniel], Eriangen, le 16 Mars 1771. 1 p.
Announces his appointment as Professor; is establishing a garden and planning a hothouse
according to the plans in Adanson’s Familles des plantes; asks for information for including
trees in it and for a third volume of Familles des plantes treating genera and species.
Annotated: “j’ai répondu le 16 avril 1771, remis à M. Duchêne.”
AD 234 SCOPOLI, [Johann Anton] (1723–1788), Idria, 23 Xbris [December] 1764. 2 pp.
Written in Latin. Admires the enormous work in the Familles des plantes; makes specific
remarks on place of certain plants in Adanson’s méthod.
Draft of reply, dated 10 Fevrier 1769, explains point for point and tells how, by comparison of all
characters, some may be important when they are constant for families, even little-known
anatomical characters.
AD 235 SCOPOLI, [Johann Anton], Ticini, 2da. Junij 1784. 2 pp.
In Latin. Recommends Alojsium Castiglioni to Adanson. Apparently Luigi Castiglioni (1757–
1832), writing a voyage to the U.S. in Italian, with a second volume on botany.
AD 236 SONNERAT, [Pierre] (1749–1814), L’Isle de France [Mauritius], le 16 Aoust 1775.
Mentions his work being thwarted by an officer [intendant] on the island and is unable to do
much; plans a voyage to China, via India, etc. Gives particulars on his voyage.
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