Fragment d’anatomie comparée sur les organes de la génération de l’ornithorynque et de l’échidné.

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[Strasbourg : Société des Sciences Naturelles, 1832?]. Quarto (260 x 200 mm), disbound from a sammelband but preserving the original plain wrappers (resultant paper loss to spine), upper wrapper with early manuscript title in ink; pp. 10, with an engraved plate at rear; the first page has a stamp, dated 1832, which indicates proceeds from the sale of the offprint were to go towards the subscription fund for a monument in honour of Baron G. Cuvier; some light foxing to the outermost leaves, otherwise very good. A short illustrated study by the French naturalist Georges Louis DuVernoy (1777-1805) on the comparative anatomy of the reproductive organs of the platypus and echidna. Originally published in the Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Strasbourg , 1830 (Tome 1), this is a rare offprint issued a year or so later. OCLC locates only two copies (both in France). No copies traced in Australian collections. DuVernoy assisted Baron Cuvier (to whom he was related) in editing his great treatise on comparative anatomy, preparing the last three volumes for publication, which covered the reproductive, respiratory, circulatory, and secretory organs. For the next two decades he worked as a medical practitioner, publishing little apart from a number of papers on palaeontology; but in 1827 he was elected professor of natural history at Strasburg, and over the next ten years he published widely on anatomical subjects. After Cuvier s death in May, 1832 he arranged his mentor

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