Michel Adanson
French botanist and naturalist
Michel Adanson was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who traveled to Senegal to study flora and fauna. He proposed a "natural system" of taxonomy distinct from the binomial system forwarded by Linnaeus. Wikipedia
Born: April 7, 1727, Aix-en-Provence, France
Died: August 3, 1806 (age 79 years), Paris, France
Children: Aglaé Adanson
Author abbrev. (botany): Adans
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Michel Adanson (1727-1806), born at Aix-en-Provence, was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist, who devised a natural system of classification and ...
A French botanist and plant collector, who worked as a clerk to a trading mission in Senegal, where he discovered many plants that were previously unknown.