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  2. Natural History (Pliny) - Wikipedia

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    The Natural History (Latin: Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder.The largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day, the Natural History compiles information gleaned from other ancient authors.

  3. Histoire Naturelle - Wikipedia

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    The Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi (French: [istwaʁ natyʁɛl]; English: Natural History, General and Particular, with a Description of the King's Cabinet) is an encyclopaedic collection of 36 large (quarto) volumes written between 1749–1804, initially by the Comte de Buffon, and continued in eight more volumes after his death by his ...

  4. Jean-Charles Chenu - Wikipedia

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    Leçons élémentaires sur l'histoire naturelle des oiseaux, (1862 - 1863) Medical Rapport sur le choléra-morbus, (1835) Rapport au conseil de santé des armées sur les résultats du service médico-chirurgical aux ambulances de Crimée et aux hôpitaux militaires français de Turquie, pendant la campagne d'Orient en 1854-1856-1856, (1865)

  5. Pierre Antoine Poiteau - Wikipedia

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    He was born in Ambleny, France.After having worked in kitchen gardens and for the Parisian market gardeners, he was appointed by André Thouin (1746–1824) garçon jardinier in 1790 at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris.

  6. Michel Adanson - Wikipedia

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    After his return to Paris in 1754 he made use of a small portion of the materials he had collected in his Histoire naturelle du Senegal (1757). [2] Sales of the work were slow, and after the publisher's bankruptcy and the reimbursement to subscribers, Adanson estimated the cost of the book to him had been 5,000 livres, beginning the penury in ...

  7. National Museum of Natural History, France - Wikipedia

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    The list of Chairs of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle includes major figures in the history of the Natural sciences. Early chaired positions were held by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck , René Desfontaines and Georges Cuvier , and later occupied by Paul Rivet , Léon Vaillant and others.

  8. André Guillaumin - Wikipedia

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    André Louis Joseph Edmond Armand Guillaumin (21 June 1885 in Arrou – 29 May 1974 in Athis-Mons) was a French botanist.. He obtained his license in biology in 1906 and began work in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris in 1909 as a preparer.

  9. Natural History Museum of Nantes - Wikipedia

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    A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nantes]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nantes}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.