Cuvier, Georges Chrétien Léopold Frédéric Dagobert (1769-1832)

Material, mostly correspondence, formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letter Sequence. 114 items. 1-47 Autograph letters signed by Cuvier to correspondents including: Arsène Thiebaut de Berneaud (1777-1850), agriculturalist, secretary of the Société Linnéenne de Paris (no.19); Jean Pierre Casimir, Baron de Puymaurin (1757-1841), administrator, politician and author of scientific treatises, son of the administrator and painter N.J. de Marcassus Puymaurin (1718-1791) geologist and director of the Dictionnaire universel (no.23); Charles Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1806-1876) (no.24); the mineralogist Jean Jacques Nicolas Huot (1790-1849) (no.26); the government minister Count André Jean Chabrol de Cronsul (1771-1836) (no.33); the archaeologist and writer Jacques Crèvecoeur de. Boucher de Perthes (1788-1868) (no.36); Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861), Zoologist (no.44) 48 Volume comprising 2 letters from Cuvier and notes by Cuvier 49-107 Notes, certificates, petitions etc signed or endorsed by Cuvier including pension request by M. Des Langeac, 14 July 1815 (no.55), 5 diplomas from the Commission de l'Instruction Publique(nos.57, 59, 62-64), various disconnected notes by Cuvier (some dated) (nos.70-90), notes by Cuvier with 2 pecil sketches of mollusques (no.100), 4 students entrance cards to the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle au Jardin du Roi (signed by Cuvier) (nos.75, 96-98), plans by Cuvier of dissection rooms (no.99) 108 Letters to Cuvier J L Fouimer, 16 July 1829 109-111 Letters by member of Cuvier's family (not to Cuvier) Mme. Anne Cuvier: Mme. Delpech, 1 June 1832 (no.109) M. Ampière de L'Academie des Sciences, n.d. (no.110) Sophie Duvanul (Cuvier's daughter) M. le Préfect, 20 June 1820(no.111) Printed items: 'Memoir of Baron Cuvier' from The London Review and Literary and Scientific Gazette(no.112), extract of an obituary of Cuvier(no.113), cover (edge has been cut off) of a publication, reprinted by Cuvier's students in his honour(no.114)

1798-1832

5 files 114 items. Paper and parchment

Arranged chronologically as follows: Nos 1-48 Letters by Cuvier Nos 49-107 Items endorsed or signed by Cuvier No 108 Letters to Cuvier Nos 109-111 Letters by members of Cuvier's family (not to Cuvier) Nos 112-114 Printed items

Purchased from Stevens, London, December 1919 (acc.92255), October 1930 (acc.56429), December 1930 (acc.68108), January 1931 (acc.75746), February 1931 (acc.68118), March 1931 (acc.56477), May 1931 (acc.68159), July 1934 (acc.68350); Charavay, Paris, October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700), September 1930 (acc.63925), unknown date before 1936 (acc.69220); probably from Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933 (acc.66365); Desgranges, Paris, January 1933 (acc.66034), November 1934 (acc.67139) Purchased from Desgranges, Paris, September 1931 (acc.64710), November 1932 (acc.65667); either from Desgranges, Paris, January 1936, or Glendining, London, c.1932 (acc.69292); Glendining, London, February 1932 (acc.67677); unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); Sotheby's, London, December 1930 (acc.73350), February 1932 (acc.76088), November 1933 (acc.67473).

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