SCIENCES - Jean-Baptiste BIOT(1774-1862, physicist, astronomer and mathematician, member of the Académie des Sciences, the Académie française and a large number of international learned societies, he was one of the most important scientists of his time) / Important autograph manuscript signed, 8 1/2 p in-4, with erasures and corrections (maintained by a link):Communication in which he reports on the work of Edouard MALINGIE (1799-1852, agronomist and breeder) published in 1851 entitled "Considérations sur les bêtes à laine au XIX° et notice sur la race de la Charmoise, qui a remporté ces dernières années, les premiers prix aux concours de Poissy et de Versailles" - It is specified that Mr. Malingié is owner-director of the Ferme-école de la Charmoise, and that the work includes 3 plates lithographed by Soulange-Tessier after drawings by Miss Rosa Bonheur - Jean-Baptiste Biot highlights the important work of Edouard Malingié, who was at the origin of agricultural education, a promoter of rural development and a pioneer of modern agriculture / Enclosed: notice addressed to Biot of his appointment to a commission of the Académie des Sciences in 1856: printed (1 p in-4) with initials of the members of the bureau (Biot's handwritten name is on the back) / Attached: announcement of his death