VALENCIENNES, Achille (1794-1865), French... - Lot 311 - Gros & Delettrez

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VALENCIENNES, Achille (1794-1865), French... - Lot 311 - Gros & Delettrez
VALENCIENNES, Achille (1794-1865), French zoologist, malacologist and ichthyologist. Set of 2 L.A.S. S.l. and Jardin des Plantes, March 19, 1846 and October 6, 1849. 5 pp. in-8. A printed letterhead of the Museum of Natural History. Interesting scientific correspondence. Valenciennes evokes the German physiologist Karl Friedrich Burdach (1776-1847), Katsner, Milne Edwards, the work of Erhard Friedrich Leuchs devoted to human saliva "the saliva of the mouth changes starch and sugar", Payen, a fellow member of the museum of Caen: Jacques-Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps (1794-1867) who, having bought a stuffed swordfish was given a swordfish head with the body of a "dogfish", asked for a stuffed swordfish or one in brandy at the Museum of Paris; the zoologist Constant Duméril "does not want to give a swordfish (and Duméril is right one cannot give one) [...]. To judge the error see the plates of my fishes: volume VIII n° 225 & 226, and the dogfish in the plates of the Dictionary of Natural Sciences [...] ". Valenciennes asks for a doctor for his suffering eye "it seems to me that I have anything other than an eye under the eyelid. It is very annoying".
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