> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 9](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120102) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/30649-1) LSID 30649-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315861) QID Q315861 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Adanson, Michel (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Adanson, Michel (1727-1806), French botanist and explorer, outstanding theoretician, philosopher and systematist. **Abbreviated name**: *Adans.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Adans.*\] #### Herbarium and types Personal herbarium at [[Collection P|P]] since 1924. This herbarium had remained in the possession of the Adanson family (Doumet-Adanson and Rocquigny-Adanson) at Cette and later at La Baleine. It was given to [[Collection P|P]] by the family and is now kept separate. Annotations are scarce, collectors and localities are rarely mentioned. The herbarium needs a critical study in order to establish its precise relation with the *Familles des plantes* (but see Halle, 1969). Adanson's first set of plants collected in Sénégal (500 specimens) was acquired by the Cabinet du Roi during his life-time; the plants are now in the herbier général of P. Other Adanson specimens are in the Jussieu and Lamarck herbaria. *Ref*.: IH 2: 27. - Stafleu, Adanson's Familles des plantes..., in facsimile edition Lehre 1966. - Hallé, L'Herbier de Michel Adanson..., Adansonia sér. 2.9: 465-486. 1969. - Hepper and Neate, Pl. coll. W. Afr. 1. 1971. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(2): 358; Barnhart 1: 16; BM 1: 11; Bossert p. 3; Dawson p. 6; Frank p. 3; GR p. 265; HU 2: 582 \[ind.\]; Kew 1: 12; Langman p. 67; LS 692-693; Moebius Gesch. Bot. p. 441 \[index\]; Plesch p. 122-123; PR 20-22; SO 645, 646, 1398a, 2542a; Zander ed. 10, p. 59. - Cuvier, Éloge hist, de Michel Adanson. Paris 1807. 32 p. - Scheler, Rev. Hist. Sci. 14: 257-284. 1961. - Stafleu, in L'Héritier, Sertum anglicum facs. ed. 1963, p. \[viii of index\]. - Stafleu, Taxon 12: 300-301. 1963. - Nicolas, Adanson, the Man, *in* Lawrence, ed., Adanson 1: 1-122. 1963 \[q.v. for earlier biographical references\] (portr., bibl.) - Stafleu, Adanson and his "Familles des plantes," *in* Lawrence, *ib*. 1: 123-264. 1963. - Margadant, The Adanson collection of botanical books and manuscripts, *in* Lawrence,. ed., Adanson 1: 265-368. 1963 (handwriting). - Heim \[ed.\] et al., Michel Adanson 1727-1806. Paris 1963 (portr., handwriting). - Traub, Plant Life 19: 12-17. 1963. - Nicolas, Adanson et le mouvement colonial, *in* Lawrence, ed., Adanson 2: 393-450. 1964. - Monod, L'oeuvre zoologique d'Adanson, *in* Lawrence, ed., Adanson 2: 499-528. 1964. - Stafleu, Adanson's sources, references, and abbreviations, *in* Lawrence, ed., Adanson 2: 529-618. 1964. - Nicolas, J. Agric, trop. Bot. appl. 11: 231-249. 1964. - Nicolas, C. R. Acad Sci. Paris 260: 2107-2109. 1965. - Burtt, Notes R. B. G. Edinburgh 26: 427-431. 1966. - Jacobs, Taxon 15: 51-55. 1966. - Nissen, Zool. Buchill. 12. 1966. - Stafleu, Adanson's Familles des plantes, \[introduction to facsimile reprint\], Lehre 1966, *also* in Adanson, Labillardière, de Candolle, Lehre 1967. - Guédès, Rev. Hist. Sci. 20: 361-386. 1967. - Hallé, Adansonia 9: 465-487. 1969 (herb.). - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 310-320, 365. 1971. - Lawalrée, Adansonia ser. 2. 15(2): 287-288. 1975. #### Manuscripts and library For the greater part at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.A. *Ref*.: Margadant, The Adanson collection of botanical books and manuscripts, in Lawrence \[ed.\], Adanson 1: 265-368. 1963. #### Eponymy (genus) *Adansonia* Linnaeus (1753); (journals): *Adansonia* recueil périodique d'observations botaniques rédigé par... H. Baillon. Paris. Vol. 1-12. 1860-1879; *Adansonia*... Nouvelle Série. Paris. (Laboratoire de Phanérogamie du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle). Vol. I-X, 1961-x. #### Handwriting Many samples reproduced in Lawrence, ed., Adanson 1, Pittsburgh 1963; see also Heim et al., Michel Adanson 1727-1806, Paris 1963. ### Publications ##### n.25. Histoire naturelle du Sénégal **Title** *Histoire naturelle du Sénégal*. Coquillages. Avec la relation abrégée d'un voyage fait en ce pays, pendant les années 1749, 50, 51, 52 & 53. Paris (Claude-Jean-Baptiste Bauche) 1757. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Hist. nat. Sénégal*. **Notes** *Orig*.: Mai-Jul 1757 (Censor 5 Mai 1757; GGA 25 Jul 1757; J. Sçavans Paris Sep 1757), p. \[i-viii\], map, \[1\]-190, \[1, h.t.\], \[i\]-xcvi, \[1\]-275, *pl. 1-19. Copies*: G, HU, NY. *English* (London): *A voyage to Senegal*, the Isle of Goree, and the river Gambia"... Translated from the French. With notes by an English gentleman, who resided some time in that country. London (Nourse, Jonhston \[sic\]), 1759. Oct. *Publ*.: Mar 1759 (Gentleman's Mag.; Misc. Corr.), p. \[i\]-xiii, \[xiv, adv.\], \[1\]-337, \[338, err.\]. *Copies*: Ewan, G. *English* (Dublin): *A voyage*... Dublin (G. and A. Ewing, A. James, and H. Bradley). Duod. *Publ*.: 1759, p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-262, map. *Copies*: HU, NY. *German*: 1773, Brandenburg, translated by F. H. W. Martini (n.v., GGA 8 Jul 1773), Leipzig 1773, id. by Schreber (n.v.; Gel. Zeit. Kiel 25 Aug 1773). *Ref*.: BM 1: 8; PR 20; IDC 1335. - Nicolas, *in* Lawrence \[ed.\], Adanson 1: 37, 42, 112. 1963. - Nissen, Zool. Buchill. no. 27. 1966. ##### n.26. Familles des plantes **Title** *Familles des plantes*. Paris (Vincent) 1763\[-1764\], 2 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fam. pl.* **Notes** *Vol. 1*: Mar 1764, p. \[i\*-iv\*\], \[i\]-cccxxv, \[1\]-189, \[190, err.\], *1 pl. Copies*: NY, U. *Vol. 2*: Jul-Aug 1763, p. (i), (1)-(24), \[i-iii, priv.\], \[1\]-640. *Copies*: NY, U. *Facsimile ed*.: Lehre (J. Cramer) 1966, with an introduction by Frans A. Stafleu (p. \[i\]-xv), Historiae naturalis classica vol. 46. *Copies*: FAS, U. For modern studies on Adanson and his publications see Lawrence \[ed.\], Adanson 1 (1963) and 2 (1965). *Ref*.: BM 1: 11; DA 1967; HU 577; IF p. 675; Kew 1: 12; LS p. 92; MWp. 1; Plesch p. 122-123; PR 21; RS p. 71; IDC 4. - Chevalier, Michel Adanson, Paris 1934. - Wilmott, Kew Bull. 1935: 91 (proposal to outlaw Adanson; rejected by Int. Bot. Congr.). - Heim et al., Michel Adanson, de l'Académie Royale des Sciences... Paris 1963. - Lawrence \[ed.\]. Adanson. The bicentennial of Michel Adanson's Familles des plantes. - Part one, Pittsburgh 1963, part two, Pittsburgh 1965. - Nicolas, Adanson, the man, *in* Lawrence, Adanson 1: 1-122. 1963. - Stafleu, Adanson and the Familles des plantes, in Lawrence, Adanson 1: 123-264. 1963. - Stafleu, Adanson, taxinomiste-philosophe, in R. Heim et al., Michel Adanson, 15-18. 1963. - Leandri, Adansonia ser. 2. 3: 313-326. 1963. - Stafleu, Adanson's sources, references and abbreviations, in Lawrence, Adanson 2: 528-618. 1965. - Jacobs, Taxon 15: 51-55. 1966. - Burtt, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 26: 427-431. 1966. - Stafleu, Adanson's Familles des plantes, introduction to facsimile reprint, Lehre 1966. - Stafleu, Taxon 16: 57. 1967, 16: 431-435. 1967. - Nicolas, DSB 1: 58-59. 1970. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 365 (index). 1971. - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Bot. 4. 1975 (sold at *£* 280). ##### n.27. Familles naturelles des plantes **Title** *Familles naturelles des plantes* de Michel Adanson... Deuxième édition préparée par l'auteur, publiée sur ses manuscrits par MM. Alexandre Adanson et J. Payer précédée d'une notice biographique par M. Alexandre Adanson et suivie d'une histoire des familles naturelles des plantes telles qu'elles sont aujourd'hui par M. J. Payer avec des gravures sur bois intercalées dans le texte et représentant les caractères principaux des genres... Tome premier, première partie comprenant l'histoire de la botanique et le plan des familles naturelles des plantes. Paris (Victor Masson), 1847 \[1864\]. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Fam. nat. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1864, p. \[i\*-iii\*\], \[i\]-\[vii\], \[1\]-300, *1 pl. Copy*: NY. *Ref*.: BM 1: 11; Kew 1: 12; PR 22.