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Jules DESNOYERS (1800-1887), geologist, founding member of the Société géologique de France, member and librarian of the Muséum, credited with coining the term "quaternary". 3 autograph letters signed, 2 to publisher Baillière, 3 pp. in-8, one on Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle letterhead. Paris, "au Jardin des Plantes", 1843-1854. Address on spine. Completes the Bibliothèque du Muséum. "I am returning to you, sir, one of the volumes of the Naturalist library that you sent to the Muséum Library: we already had it; but we are missing the 34th: Birds of Great Britain part III, forming the 12th of ornithology, published around 1842. The one I'm returning was mistakenly substituted for the one we're missing". He also asks for 3 quires of Hooke's Botanical Journal, as they already have a complete copy. "You know that these three quires contain almost as many plates as the rest of the work. I enclose here a note of what we have of the Botanical miscellany: all we need to complete the first 2 volumes are pages 209 to 256, without plates [...]. One of the portraits in the Journal of Botany, that of Olof Swarth, is repeated in volumes 2 and 3; another must be missing. Here is the list of those contained in the 4th vol. [...]". He asks Baillière to send him the memoir of the works supplied to the Muséum for the sum of 800f., requesting certain verifications...
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Jules DESNOYERS (1800-1887), geologist, founding member of the Société géologique de France, member and librarian of the Muséum, credited with coining the term "quaternary". 3 autograph letters signed, 2 to publisher Baillière, 3 pp. in-8, one on Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle letterhead. Paris, "au Jardin des Plantes", 1843-1854. Address on spine. Completes the Bibliothèque du Muséum. "I am returning to you, sir, one of the volumes of the Naturalist library that you sent to the Muséum Library: we already had it; but we are missing the 34th: Birds of Great Britain part III, forming the 12th of ornithology, published around 1842. The one I'm returning was mistakenly substituted for the one we're missing". He also asks for 3 quires of Hooke's Botanical Journal, as they already have a complete copy. "You know that these three quires contain almost as many plates as the rest of the work. I enclose here a note of what we have of the Botanical miscellany: all we need to complete the first 2 volumes are pages 209 to 256, without plates [...]. One of the portraits in the Journal of Botany, that of Olof Swarth, is repeated in volumes 2 and 3; another must be missing. Here is the list of those contained in the 4th vol. [...]". He asks Baillière to send him the memoir of the works supplied to the Muséum for the sum of 800f., requesting certain verifications...
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