Author: SAINT HILLAIRE, Isidore Geoffroy.- ALS.- Unknown Dutch recipient.- 1829.-
Title: Autograph letter signed 'J. Geoffroy St Hillaire'and dated 'Paris, le 19 mars [1829]' in which Saint Hillaire writes to a Dutch scientist and translator ['Votre Tableau du règne animal est-il traduit et déjâ publié en hollandois?' [=....?]. Things seem to have gone wrong w. a particular publication St. Hillaire wanted to send to ... He blames it on the publisher and partly on himself. Saint Hillaire discusses recent and expected publications: Edwards, 'Sur les Races humaines'; 'la premiere livraison de l'iconographie de Regne Animale [F.E.Méneville-Guérin]... [ a book by] un médecine de la marine, M. Raynaud entierement nouveaux parmis les mollusques et zoophytes [=1830] ...Dans un ou deux mois nous aurons ... un voyage autour du Monde par mm. [Jean Rene Constant] Quoy et [Joseph Paul Gaimard [=Dumont d'Urville, L'Astrolabe, 1826 - 1829]...' Best regards also from his father 'Mon père me charge de vous offrer ses compliments.'
Description: Paris, autograph, 1829. [No year but 1829, see the publication dates in the note below!]. 8vo. [Meas. appr. 12.5 x 20 cm.]. 4to sheet folded once horizontally to 12.5 x 10 cm letter size. 53 lines of text w. 1 signature. (3 pp. text, 1 (blank) p.). Isidore Geoffroy Saint Hillaire [1805 -1861], French zoologist, son of the famous Etienne de St. Hillaire, Isidore showed a great apptness for mathematics, but eventually chose the path of natural history and medicine. Assistant to his father in 1824. Following in the footsteps of he father he further researched human anatomical 'monstrosities'for want of a better word, such as cyclops, double births, etc. Although his father is credited w. coining the word 'teratology', his son Isidore pursued this new avenue of medcine. His best known work on the subject was published 1832 - 1837 'Histoire generale et particulieres des anamolies de'l'organization chez l'homme et les animaux', quoted from by many among whom Darwin. Member of the Academy, 1833. See G&M, 34. 58 'Isidore, the son of Etienne, .. organized all known human and animal malformations taxonomically. Many principles governing abnormal development were enunciated for the first time in this work. It also introduced hundreds of names for specific malformations, many of which are still in use...'[G&M, p. 100]: Isidore was also founder of the 'Société zoologique d'acclimatation', founded 6 October 1854. Interesting letter showing the exchange of information on recently published scientific publications and those about to be published,

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