Microsoft Word 08The Adanson Collection docx
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[iv], 36 pp., 1 engraved table [scheme] “G. C. W. inv. scrips. & exc.,” Argentorati, J. Lorenzii, 1777, 10 Sept. 4°
Annotated at motto only. Accompanied by an autograph letter of Würtz received 1783 [AD 245]. PLATE COLLECTION AD 128 Plate collection. A collection of more than 10,000 printed figures of plant species cut from more than 40 books and other publications. The original plates, when containing more than one species, were cut by Adanson and the figure of each was filed according to his classification. All plates and cut-up portions were arranged by him in paper folders according to his natural method of the Familles
Adansonian name and usually with the source of the figure.
HOLOGRAPH LETTERS All letters were written to Adanson in French, unless indicated otherwise. The number of pages stated refer to the number of written pages; a leaf written on both sides is counted as two pages. The address, when on the back of a leaf, is not included in the page-count. All rectos and versos of the letters were scanned and are included in the PDFs. Letters are arranged alphabetically by the name of the originator. In many of these letters Adanson wrote (often interlineally) either a copy of his reply or a trial draft of same. In other instances the mss. consists only of a draft in his hand, identified below as “draft.”
The abstracts given below are selective and do not include all subjects treated nor all names of persons or places mentioned. None of the passages is to be considered a direct or free translation of the original letter. Spelling of dates cited are as in originals, as is that of all passages.
AD 129 ADANSON, Madame [Jeanne] [Paris?] 1 Novembre 1783. 1 p. [To Charles Cretté, marchand d’arbres à Vitry.]
Annotated on back re the number of trees delivered at Neuilly and their prices, with receipt for total. Added by Adanson: “bon pour [the sum referred to].” Accompanied by a list of numbers and names of the cultivars delivered [cf. AD 132].
AD 130 [ADANSON, Michel], [Paris], 20 Mars 1768. 2 pp. Draft of letter to Mgr. [Clément Charles François] de l’Averdy (1723–1793), ministre d’État.
Offers his services as censor of natural history and agriculture, and especially to revise papers for the Gazette d’Agriculture et de Commerce. Suggests the requirement of one “arpent” of land for each of the 300 races of wheat, with which he wants to experiment. The Compagnie des Indes is said to lack a responsible person knowing natural history, agriculture, and mining; Adanson suggests himself. No indication of a reply.
AD 131 ADANSON, Michel, [Paris?], 19 9bre [Nov.] 1777. 2 pp. [To] M. [Bertrand] Bajon, ch[irur]g[ien] corresp. de l’acad. [for] M. Patris, à Caienne. [Draft.]
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A list of names of plants, with plate numbers of Aublet, requested by Adanson from French Guiana.
AD 132 ADANSON, Michel, [Paris?], … Août 1780. 4 pp.
Draft of a letter to de Condorcet with remarks and corrections on a printer’s proof of the Èloge for Bernard de Jussieu, printed in Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences 1777: 94–117, 1780. Adanson defends himself against the plagiarism hinted at, contends that his méthode is opposite to de Jussieu’s and gives details of his connection with de Jussieu in this respect. He says, indirectly, that he himself gave the answer to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ascribed to de Jussieu in the eulogy, when Rousseau asked on a field trip which method in botany should be followed. The answer was: “none, he should study the plants in the order in which Nature offers them to him” (l.c. p. III). Adanson cites the year and the place of the field trip. It is not certain that this letter was sent to de Condorcet, since the date is not filled in, and understandably Adanson was hesitant to accuse his friend Bernard de Jussieu. Later, on this same draft, he added the comment, “a imprimer avec les methodes de Botanique qui m’ont suivie.” Certainly de Condorcet did not change his statement in the final printing of the Éloge. Although this draft is undated, Adanson noted in a postscript added to it that he was sending a copy of his Histoire du Sénégal to de Condorcet, which suggests the reply did go to de Condorcet.
AD 133 ADANSON, [Michel], Paris, 24 7bre [Sept.] 1784. 2 pp. To Charles Cretté, marchd. d’arbres, Vitry.
Original small “billet” to repeat an order for 87 kinds of fruit trees, to be delivered at his new address rue de la Rochefoucault. Annotated to show actual numbers of plants delivered and their prices. 3rd page has a list of fruit trees and their prices, signed: “ce Lundi 1. 9bre. [Nov.]” Address side stamped with postmark. Accompanied with a list of a later shipment, 10 Novembre 1784, including 70 pourettes of white mulberry.
AD 134 [ADANSON, Michel], [Paris], 18 Juin 1767. 1 p. Draft of letter to M[onsieur] Gerard [probably Louis, author of Flora Gallo-provincialis, 1761].
Adanson returns a “dissertation” of M. Turra (apparently Farsetia, novum genus … Venetiis 1765), which he read without pleasure or profit, judging the author another “Arduin” in botany. His Farsetia is, according to Adanson, nothing else than a species of Lunaria, and he barely understands Adanson’s méthode, when he thinks the corolla alone to be sufficient to distinguish
AD 135 ADANSON, [Michel], [Paris, n.d.]. 2 pp. Draft of letter to Guettard, member of the Académie. Having read the memoir of M. … sur l’arction [i.e. Arctium] of Dioscorides, M. Adanson notes that the author neglected to make some of the corrections, additions, and cancels indicated [by Adanson], and that his conclusion contradicts what Adanson had told him. Adanson returns the memoir to Guettard as unfit for presentation to the Académie, asking him to consider the objections raised and to accept the rejection he will request of the Académie as rapporteur of this paper.
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