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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: commenced in silence the career of deep researches which tiiiin the basis of his present system '. But even at the pre- 1 Baron Cuvier'commenced his labours in ichthyology in the year 1788, by studying and dissecting species near their native element, on the coast of the Channel and Normandy. He resumed this kind of labour at Marseilles in 1803, and in the years 1809, 1810, and 1813, at Genoa, and on different parts of the coast of Italy. At different periods he visited and inspected many museums of the continent and of England, and carried his researches so far, as to send his assistant, M. Valenciennes, to Antwerp, to ascertain the question of the existence of the tripteronotus, or daulen of Rondelet. Besides the constant supply of fresh specimens furnished to him at Paris, he could examine the collections (mostly in spirits) called the Old, in the King's cabinet; that of Peron, from the Pacific; of the Stadtholder of Holland, brought from the Hague, and mostly collected in the Indian Seas; another Indian series, named Com- mersons; those of Laroche, from Ivica; and of Lalande, from the Mediterranean; all of which were consulted for the first edition of the Regne Animal. Since that time, the French navy and scientific travellers, in obedience to the directions issued by the ministers of marine and the interior, have caused great additions to be made to the stores in the royal museum. Strangers also have zealously co-operated in his wishes. Messrs, de Lalande and Auguste St. Hilaire, Prince Max. of Neuweid, and Mr. Spix, furnished specimens from Brazil; Messrs. Richard and Leblond, Poiteau, Leschenault, and Doumere, from Cayenne; Messrs. Pley, Lefort, Achard, Ricord, and Poey, from Martinico, Guadaloupe, Porto Rico, Columbia, St. Domingo, and Cuba; Humboldt, from the Cordill...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458866493 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458866491 |
| Weight | 2.18 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.50 In |
| List Price | $26.53 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 684 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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