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AD 329 ADANSON, Michel
Plantes medicinales à avoir ex Mat[eria] Med[ica] Lin[naei]
2 pp. 18.5 × 23 cm
A list of desiderata of 535 medicinal plants described in Linnaeus’ Materia medica (1749).
AD 330 ADANSON, Michel [Plantes du Sénégal]
212 pp. 11 × 17 cm. Includes some clippings.
Entries extracted from his Dictionnaire de botanique [AD 333], concerning plant names and
their synonyms to which are added data on his Senegal collections, usually as a collection
number.
AD 331 ADANSON, Michel Vins. Vignes. Liqueurs
142 pp. Ca.11 × 18 cm, 10 pp. ca.19 × 24 cm including many clippings.
A collection of notes and clippings about wine, grapes, and beverages. Some leaves are in
handwritings other than Adanson’s.
AD 332 ADANSON, Michel & DAUBENTON [Jean-Louis-Marie] (1716–1800) [Rapport des
commissaires de l’Académie sur un mémoire intitulé:] Discours sur les orties marines ou les
anemones de mer par M. Vastel doct. … de la société académique de Cherbourg …
2 pp. 11 × 17 cm
Adanson’s report on a paper submitted to the Académie.
AD 333 ADANSON, Michel [& DESCHIZEAUX, P.] [Dictionnaire de botanique]
Ca.12,000 pp. Ca.11 × 17 cm now arranged in nine Solander boxes.
This is Adanson’s collection of data on plants, arranged by generic or common name, similar to a
modern card file. The entries are alphabetical by plant name and provide the synonymy,
sometimes descriptions, and often some printed figures of the plant concerned. The majority of
the slips are the Deschizeaux-type of handwriting and are of data extracted from earlier works.
Many entries include also clippings, mostly from Bauhin, Pinax theatri botanici (1623, or the
2nd ed. 1671). The figures pasted on the slips are from N. Lémery (1645–1715), Dictionnaire ou
traité universel des drogues simples (Paris, ed. of 1689 or 1714). Another set of plates, folded to
the size of the slips, is of unidentified origin. Adanson wrote a new generic name on a
considerable number of the slips and added in his hand others with similar data. Some of the
entries originally included here are now identified by separate numbers in this inventory. For
dates of Deschizeaux cf. AD 355.
AD 334 ADANSON, Michel & FOUGEROUX [DE BONDAROY, Auguste-Denis] (1732–
1789)
[Rapport des commissaires nommés par l’Académie pour lire et examiner] un mémoire de
M. Antoine Laurent de Jussieu … intitulé Examen de la famille des Renoncules
10 pp. 1773. 17 × 22 cm
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Comprises the first and second draft of a report by Adanson, to be countersigned by Fougeroux,
on the paper of A.-L. de Jussieu and the later “Mémoire pour servir de rapport à celui qui a été
lu à l’académie le 13 fevrier 1773.” These three memoires,
actually written by Adanson, belong
together. The first two may represent drafts written before and after his discussions with
Fougeroux. For example, Adanson’s reluctance to judge the paper of A.-L. de Jussieu, with what
he is so involved is omitted from the second draft. It appears in the beginning of the third
mémoire, where the priority of his own ideas is stated. In this paper Adanson states that he
yielded to pressure to serve as a commissaire for A.-L. de Jussieu’s paper by the voeu of the
Académie and the prières of his friend, Bernard de Jussieu.
AD 335 ADANSON, Michel & FOUGEROUX [DE BONDAROY, Auguste-Denis] [Rapport
des commissaires nommés par l’Académie pour lire et examiner] un Mémoire de M. Descemet
… intitulé: Nouvelles découvertes sur la structure des organes de la génération de différentes
espèces d’Apocins de Periploca et d’Asclepias de Tournefort, et sur la manière dont se fait l’acte
de génération dans ces fleurs
9 pp. 11 × 17, 1779. 17 × 22 cm
Comprises Adanson’s first and second draft of a report for the Académie, for which Fougeroux
was
commissaire also, but without any indication that the original was signed by the latter.
Annotated: “Fait au Louvre ce Fevrier 1779.” The second draft has some deletions.
AD 336 ADANSON, Michel & FOUGEROUX [DE BONDAROY, Auguste-Denis] [Rapport
des commissaires nommés par l’Académie pour lire et examiner] l’extrait d’un Mém[oire] de M.
Descemet … sur la fleur de Periploca foliis obl[ongis] s[eu] Periploca graeca Lin[naeus]
Sp[ecies plantarum] 309
1 p. 1779. 11 × 17.5 cm
A first draft in Adanson’s hand of a report on an abstract of a paper by Descemet; the date of its
presentation to the Académie is not given.
AD 337 ADANSON, Michel & FOUGEROUX DE BONDAROY, [Auguste-Denis] Rapport
[sur] le 3
d
. Mémoire lu à sur les plantes de la famille des Apocins par M. Descemet …
2 pp. text, 2 pp. sketches. 1779. 10 × 15, 12 × 18 cm
A first draft in Adanson’s hand of a report on a third paper by Descemet; date: “ce____Avril
1779.”
AD 338 ADANSON, Michel & FOUGEROUX [DE BONDAROY, Auguste-Denis] Raport [sic]
[des] commissaires nommés par l’Acad[émie pour lire] un mém[oire] de M. Desfontaines sur un
nouveau genre de plante corymbifère de la famille des Composées
1 p. n.d. 11 × 17 cm
Adanson’s first draft of a Mémoire on a new genus; Adanson proposed a new Latin name for this
genus in honor of Desfontaines. Dated “Fait au Louvre ce___–1779.”