Sketchbooks and letters, 1816-1836.

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Sketchbooks and letters, 1816-1836.

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This material includes drawings of various locations in the Delaware Valley as well as other places along the east coast; the correspondence, in French, is with A. Demarest, a Paris naturalist. Documents of the Museum of Natural History at Havre, France, also in French, are included.

5 microfilm reels.

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MuseĢum d'histoire naturelle du Havre.

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Demarest, A.

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Lesueur, Charles-Alexandre, 1778-1846

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Charles Alexandre Lesueur, artist and naturalist, was born on January 1, 1778, at Le Havre, France. He participated in Napoleon's expedition to Australia (1800-1804), and joined William Maclure in his geologic survey of Europe, the West Indies and the Eastern United States (1815-1817). Upon returning to Philadelphia, Lesueur and Maclure wrote out the results of their travels, publishing many scientific papers in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with Lesueur also pu...