Étienne Louis GEOFFROY (1725-1810), French... - Lot 36 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

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Étienne Louis GEOFFROY (1725-1810), French... - Lot 36 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay
Étienne Louis GEOFFROY (1725-1810), French entomologist and naturalist. He established a classification of beetles. L.A.S. addressed to Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836). Chartreuve, 10 floréal year 6 [29 April 1798]. 3 pp. in-4. Address on the reverse side "De Jussieu, membre de l'Institut national, professeur de botanique au Jardin des Plantes" and postal marks "Fismes". Geoffroy thanks Jussieu and the members of the Institute for having been received as an associate and asks his colleague for his opinion, concerning "8 or 10 plants". "You will find the Soucy d'Espagne, which is currently thriving in my garden, but whose name and phrase I cannot find among the Calendula in Linné's species. I have found here near a rather beautiful natural waterfall some mats of a species of moss that I believe to be jungermannia [?] but for which I have not yet been able to find any flowers, I am sending you a small sample in my letter, and I beg you to let me know if I am mistaken. Three samples of green moss are glued inside the letter. He evokes his colleague Villeneuve and a trip to the coast of Africa. "Here you are, my dear fellow-member, in the embarrassments and occupations for the arrival of elephants and other objects of natural history. If I were to see the Museum and the Jardin des Plantes again, I would find them quite embellished and quite changed from what they were. This is perhaps what I miss most about Paris. But at my age [73] it is good to be detached from everything and to live in solitude. I try to make it more pleasant by returning more and more to the study of botany, but I have soon exhausted the plants of this country [] ".
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