AIN. 1797. COLLECTION OF LOCAL NATURAL HISTORY.... - Lot 365 - Vermot et Associés

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AIN. 1797. COLLECTION OF LOCAL NATURAL HISTORY.... - Lot 365 - Vermot et Associés
AIN. 1797. COLLECTION OF LOCAL NATURAL HISTORY. Opinion of the citizen LUC Professor of natural history at the Central school of the department of the AIN. Made in BOURG (01) 30 Pluviôse Year 5 (February 18, 1797). He invites the municipal administrations of the cantons and the citizens to collect & to transmit to him the various objects which will appear to them worthy of attention in the three reigns of nature, in particular to gather & to address to him in Bourg (01) of the samples of grounds, stones, crystals & other mineral substances of their cantons, as well as seeds, plants, insects, reptiles, birds & remarkable quadrupeds & little known in the country; to announce to him the accidents, phenomena and particular facts which can give place to the observations & to the study By this easy & simple means, one will be able to form in a short time a Collection of local Natural History, which will become especially useful to this department... on the progress of knowledge & on the advancement of agriculture & arts in the Department of the AIN." - Cupboard (46 x 37) Condition A.
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