The natural history of the amphibious carnivora / [Robert Hamilton].

  • Hamilton, Robert, 1794-1868
Date:
1839
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Credit: The natural history of the amphibious carnivora / [Robert Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEMOIR OF M. FRANCOIS PERON. Memoir of M. Peron, Correspondent de PInstitutej Membre de la Societe de Medicine, § c. §*c. In the following Memoir, we invite attention to a brief sketch of the eventful life of the illustrious Peron, whose course was alike short and brilliant. In early life, disabled from further service in that bloody field, misnamed the field of glory, for which by nature he was peculiarly fitted, but where he witnessed much that almost broke his heart, he be- took himself to the study of Natural History, and, after a period of ardent application, he spent se- veral most busy years in the dreary regions of the Antarctic Seas—there working as Naturalist had never worked before. He then returned to Paris, loaded with the spoils of his successful industry B