Histoire Naturelle du Senegal. Coquillages. Avec la Relation abregee d'un Voyage fait en ce Pays, pendant les annees 1749,50,51,52, & 53.

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The author, a French Naturalist trained by Jussieu, took the opportunity of going to the French settlement in Senegal in the service of the French East-India Company, in order to study the natural history of those parts, and became one of the earliest to do so.

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