Hi I am Adanson.I was born at Aix-en-Provence.My family moved to Paris on 1730. After I leave the College Sainte Barbe I was employed in the cabinets of Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes.At the end of 1748 I left France on an exploring expedition to Senegal.I remained there for five years, collecting and describing numerous animals and plants.I also collected specimens of every object of commerce, delineated maps of the country, made systematic meteorological and astronomical observations, and prepared grammars and dictionaries of the languages spoken on the banks of the Senegal.
MichelAdanson (April 7, 1727 - August 3, 1806) was a French naturalist of Scottish descent.
In 1774 Adanson submitted to the consideration of the French Academy of Sciences an immense work, extending to all known beings and substances.
The committee to which the inspection of this enormous mass was entrusted strongly recommended Adanson to separate and publish all that was peculiarly his own, leaving out what was merely compilation.
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