Mémoire sur la Famille des Rhamnées

Mémoire sur la Famille des Rhamnées
by Adolphe Brongniart
Adopted for Conservation
in memory of George R. Turner, Jr.
on January 15, 2014
Mémoire sur la famille des Rhamnées.

Mémoire sur la famille des Rhamnées, ou, Histoire naturelle et médicale des genres qui composent ce groupe de plantes

By Adolphe Brongniart. A Paris: De l'imprimerie de Didot le Jeune, 1826.

Adolphe Brongniart. Paris,1826.
A botanist at the Muséum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, Brongniart made important contributions to the science in the early 1800s, especially concerning the nature of pollen, the structure and function of leaves, and relationships between extinct and living species of plants. This early work — his university dissertation — focuses on buckthorns, a family of shrubs and small trees, and their medicinal properties (cathartic and potentially toxic).

Condition and Treatment: 

The original wrappers (remnants of which survive in the gutter of the title page) are missing. The text-block is over-sewn and glued into a modern acidic pamphlet case that is missing its back cover. Create a new cover for the book.  Lift and preserve the bookplate, re-attaching it to the new covers.

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Adoption Type: Preserve for the Future

Location: 
Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History