Paul Raoul Adrien JOLY (Alençon 1874-1935), physician and na - Lot 37

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Paul Raoul Adrien JOLY (Alençon 1874-1935), physician and na - Lot 37
Paul Raoul Adrien JOLY (Alençon 1874-1935), physician and naturalist. 2 autograph letters signed to physician and naturalist Raphaël Blanchard (1857-1919). On board [New Caledonia], October-November 1902. 4 pp. in-8 and 3 pp. in-12 on mourning paper. Mission to New Caledonia, the New Hebrides and the Wallis Islands, on leeches and mosquitoes. "I searched, both in Caledonia and in the New Hebrides, for leeches. In the streams and ponds I was able to search, I found nothing; nor in the grasses or trees. I asked the inhabitants of the bush, the old settlers [...]. The samples I am sending you were collected in Nouméa. These leeches were introduced here some twenty years ago by a pharmacist for medical use [...]. But leeches have swarmed in Nouméa and can be found in every stream in the city. In the New Hebrides, I got nothing on the subject. Mosquitoes come from the Hebrides. They are numerous in the Hebrides, especially in the northern islands. It is also in these islands that malaria is most frequent [...]. The Port Vila mosquitoes I am sending you are probably of the Faranti species, but I believe that Dr Farant did not send any larvae [...]. As the label on the bottles indicates, some of them came from a pond near a house, while the others I found in a coconut in the middle of a large coconut plantation [...]. I'm sending the Muséum a case of natural history samples collected in the Hebrides [...] We leave tomorrow for the Wallis Islands. I'm delighted and hope to bring back something new, or at least interesting, from this remote island at the very end of the world [...]".
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