78. Antoine PARMENTIER (1737-1813) agronomist and pharmacist L.A.S., at the Invalides April 24, 1780, to a member of a learned society; 3 pages in-4 (mounted on the edges). About his research on nourishing plants. His "works on grains and floury roots" certainly did not speak of "acorns of earth," but he did analyze them but he did analyze them, as we shall see in his Exposition of the various vegetable substances suitable for replacing to replace ordinary food in times of famine. He then analyzes the chemical composition of the acorn of ground, and gives some uses: "It can be cooked in water or under the ashes and to be used without without seasoning: it is possible to prepare bread and a bread and a vinous drink. Finally, I know of nothing more of the world, and the world of the people, and the world of the people. the first, in its quality of seed, is drier and less fibrous. the first of them is drier and less fibrous. I have no doubt that that the cultivation by extending this production does not improve it of the world....