Series 16: Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent correspondence
Series 16: Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent correspondence
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1825-1838
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SAFE/MLMSS 10275/Box 3/Folder 5
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French
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1 folder of textual material
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1. Autograph letter signed, from C[harles] A[lexandre] Lesueur [Baudin veteran] to Bory de Saint-Vincent [Baudin veteran] in Paris, sent from Philadelphia, 7 March 1825 (3 pages on a single folded sheet, seal), thanking him for sending notes on the 'Dictionnaire classique d’histoire naturelle' and querying the classifications of some sea creatures....
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Series 16: Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent correspondence
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Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778-1846), naturalist, was only 22 when he sailed on Baudin's Géographe as a savant. He clashed so openly with Baudin that he was one of the first to jump ship at Île de France [Mauritius]. Nonetheless, Bory de Saint-Vincent published the first account of the voyage in 1804, in which he was fiercely critical of...
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SAFE/MLMSS 10275/Box 3/Folder 5
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9qoaGWQ1
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9qoaGWQ1
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9650192
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