Note 129 — Chapter II · History of the Theory of the Nutrition of Plants. 1583-1860.
Henry E. F. (Henry Edward Fowler) Garnsey translation
Henri Louis du Hamel du Monceau was born at Paris in 1700 and died in 1781. He had an estate in the Gatinais, and turned his studies in physics, chemistry, zoology, and botany to account in the composition of a number of treatises on agriculture, the management of woods and forests, naval affairs, and fisheries. He was made Member of the Academy in 1728 on presenting to it an essay on a disease then raging in the saffron-plantations, and caused by the growth of a fungus (‘Biographie Universelle’).