CUVIER (Georges, 1769-1832, French Anatomist known as the "Father of Comparative Anatomy and Palaeontology", Baron)

Autograph Letter Signed to John Sebastian MILLER
(1715-1790, German Illustrator and Naturalist) in French with translation, thanking him for the fine "present you made me, by sending me a copy of your Natural History of the Crinoidia; I attach the greatest value to this flattering testimony of your regard, and I beg you to receive, as a low return, the homage of my gratitude and my most distinguished feelings ...", 1 side 4to., Paris, 17th February

Cuvier's Animal Kingdom (1817) classified living and fossil animals by their structure, and his geological researches were summed up in his Revolutions of the Surface of the Globe (1825). In 1808 Napoleon appointed him President of the National University, and he worked for public education all his life.
Translation
Paris, February, 17th 1822
Sir, I have the honor to thank you for the fine present you made me, by sending me a copy of yourNatural History of the Crinoidia; I attach the greatest value to this flattering testimony of your regard, and I beg you to receive, as a low return, the homage of my gratitude and my most distinguished feelings.

Item Date:  1822

Stock No:  39864