ROYER-COLLARD, Hippolyte Louis (1802-1850),... - Lot 306 - Gros & Delettrez

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ROYER-COLLARD, Hippolyte Louis (1802-1850),... - Lot 306 - Gros & Delettrez
ROYER-COLLARD, Hippolyte Louis (1802-1850), French anatomist. Set of 2 documents: -L.A.S. addressed to Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. S.l.n.d. 3 pp. large in-4. Some small folds. Interesting mail in reaction to strong reproaches of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and his entourage, in particular Vernière and of "the anathema launched by Mr. Cuvier". He also evokes the work of Karl Friedrich von Kielmeyer (1765-1844), German naturalist at the origin of the theory of recapitulation, "who professed for a long time in Tübingen", on the "successive resemblances of the fetuses with the various degrees of the zoological scale", work of which Cuvier keeps a copy, of the note of Jourdan, "whose work was often useful to me", etc. -L.S. addressed to Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Paris, June 19, 1834. 1 p. in-4. Subscription for 3 copies of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire's work : " Philosophie anatomique : Fragment sur la structure et les usages des glandes mammaires des cétacés ".
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