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Bernard Germain Etienne, count of LACÉPÈDE (1756-1825),...

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Bernard Germain Etienne, count of LACÉPÈDE (1756-1825), French naturalist, zoologist and herpetologist. L.A.S. [probably addressed to the count of Milly]. Agen, April 30, 1789. 1 p. in-4. "I had asked you not to make any use of my memoir, I will nevertheless ask you to read it to Mr. de Buffon, he is a good physicist. If he likes my ideas, you could show it to the Academy, I intend to bring you myself the apparatus of my aerostatic machine at the end of May [] ".