Michel Adanson

Michel Adanson 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.

7 April 1727

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Born in the same month (April 1727): Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau • Jean-Georges Noverre • Pasquale Anfossi