Michel Adanson
1727
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1806
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
Country of citizenship: France
Languages spoken, written or signed: French
Educated at: Collège Sainte-Barbe
Occupation: botanist, pteridologist, entomologist, anthropologist, mycologist, conchologist, naturalist, explorer, ethnologist
Award received: Fellow of the Royal Society, Knight of the Legion of Honour
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Michel Adanson (7 April 1727 – 3 August 1806) 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. The standard author abbreviation Adans. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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