Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Pierre Cusson" in English language version.
This anecdote has been misrepresented by James Edward Smith as "the mortifying stupidity, of his wife, who, on his absence from home, is recorded to have destroyed his whole herbarium, scraping off the dried specimens, for the sake of the paper on which they were pasted!"—Smith, James Edward (1807). (2nd ed.). p. 417.
