Paris 1849. Blatt-Maße: ca. 25 x 15,5 cm. -- Handkolorierter Stahlstich. -- gut erhalten. || Hand colored engraving. -- in very good condition. -- Charles Henry Dessalines dOrbigny (1806-1876) was a French botanist and geologist. His official botanical author abbreviation is Orb. He was the brother of the naturalist Alcide Dessalines dOrbigny, went to school in La Rochelle and studied medicine in Paris. In 1834 he succeeded Louis Cordier (1777-1861) as assistant and preparator for geology at the Muséum national dhistoire naturelle in Paris. When the Société Cuvierienne was founded in 1838, he was one of the 140 founding members of the society.
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