Tableau méthodique des minéraux, 1784.

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Tableau méthodique des minéraux, 1784.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81034259

Bound autograph manuscript of Daubenton's 1784 work on the classification and properties of minerals.

1 v. (36 p.) ; 23 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8256504

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Daubenton, M. (Louis-Jean-Marie), 1716-1799

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Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716-1799) was a pioneering French naturalist, member of the French Academy of Sciences, lecturer of natural history at the college of medicine (1775) and professor of zoology at the Collège de France (1778), first director of the Museum of Natural History in 1793 (formerly Jardin des Plantes in Paris). In 1742, the naturalist Georges Buffon asked him to prepare anatomical descriptions for a work on natural history (Histoire naturelle, 1794-1804), work h...

Wagner, Henry Raup, 1862-1957

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Wagner was born on Sept. 27, 1862 in Philadelphia, PA; A.B. (1884), LL. B (1886), L.H.D. (1946), Yale Univ.; D. Litt. (1935), Pomona College; LL. D (1949), UC Berkeley; admitted to Missouri bar in 1887 and began practicing in Kansas City; became member of the executive committee (1918-20), the vice president (1920-21), American Smelting and Refining Co., New York; began to collect books, and made contributions to the history and bibliography of Latin America and the American West; member, Americ...