GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE (family). 3 documents. -... Lot 37

GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE (family). 3 documents. - Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844), zoologist. Autograph piece, 1 p. in-4 oblong. "[] old discovery of Goethe, telling his master Camper the denial that such a bone should be against Camper's feeling []". - Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861), zoologist. Autograph letter signed to Drouillard. 1 p. in-8. Paris, Dec. 1840. He asks to be paid in cash and not in bills. - Albert Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1835-1919), zoologist, director of the Jardin d'Acclimatation. Autograph letter signed to his cousin. 2 pp. in-8. Paris, June 25, 1899. On the monkeys of the Jardin d'Acclimatation. "I would like to point out to Mr. Conan that as experimental subjects, the monkeys of the J. d'A [Jardin d'acclimatation] are very mediocre (like all the monkeys that live together in captivity), they are all tubercular, or at least, very anemic and in poor physical condition. The only monkeys suitable for this kind of work are those who arrive in Europe and who have not stayed with animal dealers [] ".