Michel Adanson au Sénégal (1749-1754) : Un grand voyage naturaliste et anthropologique du Siècle des lumières

Carteret, Xavier

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“…La carrière de naturaliste de Michel Adanson commence en 1749, lorsqu'il s'engage, de son plein gré et hors de toute mission officielle, sur un navire de la Compagnie des Indes en partance pour le Sénégal (Carteret 2012) 4 . Il y restera cinq ans, amassant d'importantes collections d'histoire naturelle.…”

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Aux pays des formes insolites : paysages botaniques et ordre naturel

Vuillemin

2023

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La mission première des botanistes voyageurs, au xviiie siècle, relève de la collecte : il s’agit d’amasser autant d’échantillons naturels que possible afin d’alimenter l’entreprise classificatoire, d’une part, et de mettre en évidence l’utilité de la flore exotique, d’autre part. Cet article s’intéressera à la première partie de ce projet uniquement : nous montrerons comment certains naturalistes expriment leur perplexité face à une démarche qui leur semble insuffisante, trop peu attentive aux affinités des plantes telle qu’elles se manifestent en un lieu donné, à travers un paysage qui, mieux que tout système classificatoire, est susceptible de faire sentir l’ordre naturel. Mots-clés : botanique, Linné, Adanson, Commerson, île de France, systèmes, paysages.

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Aux pays des formes insolites : paysages botaniques et ordre naturel

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2023

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“…The earliest botanical collections reported in the area of the Senegambia under French influence was carried out in the mid-18th century by Michel Adanson (1727-1806), who would become a distinguished French naturalist. In December 1748, Adanson left Paris to explore Senegal and the surrounding areas where he spent five years as an employee with the Compagnie des Indes, a Royal French trading company [21]. In February 1754, he returned with a large collection of plants, animals, and minerals, including over 5000 specimens of plants.…”

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“…Many were collected in West Africa, some of which became part of the French royal collection under the supervision of the naturalist Georges Buffon (1707-1788). Some of these specimens are housed in Paris in the herbarium of the Muséum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle (P), while the bulk of the other specimens were incorporated in a personal collection [21]. Nevertheless, his major contribution to the natural sciences and botanical classification would only be recognized from the 1960s [21].…”

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Recovering Plant Data for Guinea-Bissau: Implications for Biodiversity Knowledge of West Africa

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The rich plant diversity that characterizes the West African Region and the inherent knowledge of their flora and vegetation has been the backbone of scientific explorations during the past centuries. The evolution of botanical knowledge on Guinea-Bissau, throughout the 16th and 20th centuries is reviewed. We present and discuss floristic data collected by scientific expeditions between the mid-1700s to 1974, when the Portuguese colonial period ended. Expeditions undertaken by French naturalists provided some of the earliest plant collections. A list of herbarium specimens collected by the French naturalist Jardin, in the Bijagós Islands in ca. 1847–1858 is presented here for the first time, while in the late 1800s some Portuguese naturalists also explored Guinea-Bissau. During the colonial period (1915–1974), Gomes e Sousa published the first comprehensive study of the territory’s flora while Espírito Santo assembled the largest plant collection. Our review applies a multi-disciplinary perspective to fill important lacuna regarding biodiversity knowledge of this under-researched West African country. It constitutes the first study tracing the long term evolution of knowledge on Guinea Bissau's plant diversity, which provides the basis for understanding trends and research priorities, in particular in conservation and botanical fields.

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Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences, 2013

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Michel Adanson au Sénégal (1749-1754) : Un grand voyage naturaliste et anthropologique du Siècle des lumières

Cited by 6 publications

References 1 publication

Aux pays des formes insolites : paysages botaniques et ordre naturel

Aux pays des formes insolites : paysages botaniques et ordre naturel

Recovering Plant Data for Guinea-Bissau: Implications for Biodiversity Knowledge of West Africa

Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences, 2013

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