Selected manuscripts, [ca. 1716-1849], pertaining to America.

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Selected manuscripts, [ca. 1716-1849], pertaining to America.

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These manuscripts relate to various aspects of North American botany, including plants of the Carolinas, Louisiana, and Canada, botanical gardens, descriptive information on the fishes of New York, and a notebook on fishes by C.A. Lesueur.

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Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France)

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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...