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Adanson
French botanist. He studied theology, classics, and philosophy in Paris before traveling to Senegal, where he lived several years. He returned with a large collection of plant specimens, now in the National Museum of Natural History. In Familles des plantes (1763; "Families of Plants"), he described his classification system; it was opposed by C. Linnaeus, whose system eventually prevailed. He was the first to classify mollusks. He also studied electricity in torpedo fish and the effects of electrical current on regenerating frog legs and heads. He is now known mainly for introducing the use of statistical methods in botanical studies.
Shandong
Coastal province (pop., 1996 est.: 87,050,000), NE China. It contains the Shandong Peninsula and an inland zone that includes a fertile, intensely cultivated area that forms part of the Huang River basin. The peninsula has been occupied since the 3rd millennium BC, and by the 8th cent. BC it had become a center of political and military activity. It became N China's leading maritime center in the 3rd cent. AD and retained that position for centuries. In the 19th cent. devastating floods resulted in substantial emigration. It came under German, British, and Japanese influence in the late 19th cent. The Japanese occupied it 1937-45; it came under Communist control in 1948. Its products include wheat, corn, iron ore, gold, fish, and silk. Confucius and Mencius were born in Shandong.
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