[Isidore GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE (1805-1861), zoologist, memb - Lot 28

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[Isidore GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE (1805-1861), zoologist, memb - Lot 28
[Isidore GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE (1805-1861), zoologist, member (1833) then president (1856) of the Academy of Sciences. Founder of the Société d'acclimatation]. Medal awarded to Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, by Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, protector. Profile of the Prince of Bavaria by L. Leigh. 43 mm. 1861. Copper bee, weighing about 40 g. Medal of honor awarded for the "Propagation of disarmed cattle breeds [i.e. without horns, fruit of genetic crossbreeding], to Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, hereditary zealot of disarmament [...] & E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, anatomical philosopher". This is the second distinction that Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire received from Prince Adalbert of Bavaria for his "zeal for the cause of animal protection".
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