Adolphe BRONGNIART (1801-1876) paleobotanist. L.A.S. co-sign - Lot 169

Adolphe BRONGNIART (1801-1876) paleobotanist. L.A.S. co-signed by Adrien de Jussieu, Paris July 13, 1848, to Mme Ed. Quesnel in Le Havre; 1 page in-4 on Museum d'Histoire Naturelle letterhead. It is with gratitude and eagerness that the Museum accepts the gift of "some beautiful plants contained in your greenhouses and particularly a pandanus odoratissimus and a strelitzia Augusta, both of large size and which will be a valuable acquisition for our greenhouses". Mr. Houllet, the gardener of the hot greenhouses, will be sent to supervise the packing and transport of the plants... We enclose a L.A.S. from Marcelin Berthelot (1898), 2 L.A.S. from Victor Raulin, and a bill a.s. from Chevreul.