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), former 2nd arrondissement of Paris
Author abbrev. (botany): Adans
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