De l'instinct et de l'intelligence des animaux. Resumé des observations de Frédéric Cuvier sur le sujet ... Seconde édition revue et augmentée

Paris: Paulin, 1845. 12mo, pp. [8], 324; contemporary green mortocco-backed green cloth, gilt-lettered direct on spine; light foxing; very good. First published in 1841. "Protégé of Cuvier, talented, unusually skillful" (DSB) Flourens founded, with Arago, the Comptes rendu, still one of the greatest of all scientific periodicals, and tusseled with Victor Hugo over an election to the French Academy. His work was precise, and largely accurate, and he made a number of important discoveries in his field of physiology. But he was often authoritarian, and he notoriously criticized Darwin in 1864. Item #47196

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