Michel Adanson

Michel Adanson was an 18th-century French botanist and naturalist who travelled 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.

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Who was born first?

• Michel Adanson and Philibert Commerson were born the same year
• Michel Adanson was born 1 year before Samuel Wallis
• Michel Adanson was born 1 year before James Cook
• Michel Adanson was born 1 year after Vasily Chichagov
• Michel Adanson was born 2 years before Johann Reinhold Forster

Timeline

1. Vasily ChichagovMarch 11, 1726 – April 16, 1809
2. Michel Adanson (this page)April 7, 1727 – August 3, 1806
3. Philibert CommersonNovember 18, 1727 – 1773
4. James CookOctober 27, 1728 – February 14, 1779
5. Samuel WallisApril 23, 1728 – January 21, 1795
6. Johann Reinhold ForsterOctober 22, 1729 – December 9, 1798

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