Institute when it invited him to take his place among its members. To such a depth of poverty as to be unable to appear before the French Of the Academy by the Constituent Assembly, and was consequently reduced

Of this he was deprived in the dissolution He had been elected a member of the Academy of Sciences in 1759, and he latterly subsisted on a small pension Rejected this advice and the huge work, at which he continued to labour, Recommended Adanson to separate and publish all that was peculiarly his own, leaving out what was merely compilation. To which the inspection of this enormous mass was entrusted strongly With their explanations and a number of detached memoirs, 40,000 figuresĪnd 30,000 specimens of the three kingdoms of nature. Their distribution 150 volumes more, occupied with the alphabeticalĪrrangement of 40,000 species a vocabulary, containing 200,000 words, It consisted of 27 large volumes of manuscript,Įmployed in displaying the general relations of all these matters, and Of the French Academy of Sciences an immense work, extending to all In 1774 Adanson submitted to the consideration Laurent de Jussieu's Genera Plantarum (1789), of the natural method To open the way for the establishment, by means principally of Antoine The success of this work was hinderedīy its innovations in the use of terms, which were ridiculed by theĭefenders of the popular sexual system of Linnaeus but it did much Of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, and had been anticipated to some extent Its adherence to natural botanical relations, was based on the system He developed the principle of arrangement above mentioned, which, in In 1763 he published his Familles naturelles des plantes. Was considered more remote in proportion to the dissimilarity of organs. Of similar organs were referred to one great division, and the relationship Those beings possessing the greatest number Gave birth to new relations, so he established a corresponding number He founded his classification of all organizedīeings on the consideration of each individual organ. His universal method, a system of classification distinct from those This work has a special interestįrom the essay on shells, printed at the end of it, where Adanson proposed

His Histoire naturelle du Senegal (1757). He made use of a small portion of the materials he had collected in Observations, and prepared grammars and dictionaries of the languages He also collected specimens of every object of commerce,ĭelineated maps of the country, made systematic meteorological and astronomical Remained there for five years, collecting and describing numerous animalsĪnd plants. At theĮnd of 1748 he left France on an exploring expedition to Senegal. ReaumurĪnd Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes. After leaving theĬollege Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of R. Of Scottish descent Michel Adanson (1727-1806). Adamson published on the vegetation of South Africa and wrote a flora of the Cape area, eventually retiring to Scotland in 1955.' (Aluka)Īdansonia (Bombaceae): named for French surgeon and naturalist 'English botanist from Manchester who was a lecturer in botany at Manchester University (1912-1922) before sailing to Australia (1922), then moving to South Africa where he was appointed Professor of Botany at Cape Town University (1923-1950). Protoasparagus acocksii = Asparagus acocksii.Īdamsonii ( Liriothamnus, Trachyandra): after Robert Stephen Adamson (1885-1965). (Hugh Clarke)Īcocksii (Agathosma, Asparagus, Cliffortia, Diospyros, Erica, Protoasparagus, Restio, Rhus, Searsia, Selago, Trachyandra): see acockii. al.): collected by and named after John Phillip Harrison Acocks (1911-1979), for over 50 years a botanist, author of Veld types of South Africa, pasture ecologist, did much work in the area of botanical surveys, and is especially known for his development of treating different areas as vegetation regions or veld types. Plants of the genus to staunch the wounds of his soldiers at the siegeĪcockii (Chondropetalum et. Peder Christian Abildgaard (1740-1801), founder of the Royal VeterinaryĬollege at Christianshavn in 1770 and thus the father of Danish veterinaryĪchillea (Asteraceae): named for Achilles, who supposedly used (Elsa Pooley)Ībildgaardia (Cyperaceae): honors the Danish zoologist and veterinarian Note: The generic names in italics are outdated names, and where applicable their new names are given at the bottom of the entry.Ībbottii (Psoralea): after Tony Abbott, farmer and amateur botanist. Photo Identifications L-R: Aptosimum indivisum, Ornithogalum juncifolium, Relhania pungens, Aristea abyssinica, Helichrysum ecklonis, Leucospermum cuneiforme, Pelargonium pulverulentum.

Quaqua cala culture