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24 octobre 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.mnhn.5079
- isbn: 9782856537947
- eisbn: 9782856539057
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Theodore Wells Pietsch, « Plumier’s fishes », Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, ID : 10.4000/books.mnhn.5079
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Plumier had a great interest in fishes and there is ample evidence that he had plans to publish a treatise on the fishes that he had observed and drawn during his three voyages to the New World, as well as on those he encountered in his own country. In an undated letter to Isaac Baulot, Plumier described his need for additional field work on the French coast: “Please pardon me the liberty I take in asking you to be willing to have some of your sketch-artists draw me a sardine of Royan in its ...