The natural history of the ordinary Cetacea or whales / Illustrated by thirty-two coloured plates, numerous wood-cuts, with memoirs and portrait of Lacepede.

  • Robert Hamilton
Date:
1837
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Credit: The natural history of the ordinary Cetacea or whales / Illustrated by thirty-two coloured plates, numerous wood-cuts, with memoirs and portrait of Lacepede. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f MEMOIR OF M. LE COMTE DE LACEPEDE. As Le Comte vr Lacrprpe was the author of that elegant and classical work on the Cetacea, which for so many years has been the most popular treatise on the subject, we have thought that. we could not submit to the attention of our readers a more ap- propriate biographical memoir than a brief sketch of this very illustrious and most amiable man. BreRNARD-GERMAIN-ETIENNE DE La VILLE was vorn at Agen on December 26, 1756. He was - descended from a long line of honourable ancestors ; and his father, Jean Joseph de La Ville, was lieu- tenant-general of Senechausée. Lacépede, however, did not value himself on his extraction, but entered life with the determination of exhibiting his birth only by the urbanity of his manners and the upright- ness of his conduct. This resolution he maintained with the most scrupulous uniformity throughout his _ chequered history; his politeness was proverbial,