d'Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines (1802-1857), paleontologist, geologist and traveller
- Date:
- 1843-1855
- Reference:
- MS.7370/54-58
- Part of:
- Miscellany: French, 19-20th centuries
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
5 autograph letters, signed (1 incomplete, little more than the signature), including 1 to the zoologist Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire (1805-1861) (no.54).
Publication/Creation
1843-1855
Physical description
5 items
Biographical note
Alcide d'Orbigny was the brother of the geologist Charles Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1806-1876).
Related material
At Wellcome Collection:
d'Orbigny's brother, the geologist Charles Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1806-1876), is represented at MS.7370/59-70.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts