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| Abstract : August 10, 1722. Sainte Catherine plantation. Alexandre to [Vaillant?]. [Science.] Specimens of natural history he has sent him; descriptions of copal and a rattlesnake; wax shrub. Asks him to communicate everything to Kolly. 19 pp. ASH., 115-36:no.13. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : August 6, 1730. New Orleans. Baron to the Comptroller General. Account of his appointment to service in Louisiana by letters patent, July 1, 1727: his voyage to the colony; work under Périer as naturalist, architect, engineer, councillor soldier, doctor, and missionary. 3 pp. AC., C 13b, 1:n.p. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : 1683. Collection of legends and of historical and geographical notes relating to the Marly globe. This globe was made by Father Mark Vincent Coronelli and was presented to Louis XIV in 1683 by Cardinal d'Estrées. Some legends relate to New Mexico, the Mississippi, vegetation, Indians, rivers, villages, forts, history, Florida, the Ohio, etc. 1 vol. BN., MSS. fr., 13365. |
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| Abstract : May 19, 1746. Paris. Minister to Dr. Prat. Discusses his memoir on the wax-tree, his ill health, and his return to France. 1p. AC., B 83:320. (LC.) |
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| Abstract : December 22, 1730. New Orleans. Baron to the minister. Natchez war and French attack of February 10; public works; the company and Louisiana; natural history work, astronomy, navigation, plants, animals, minerals; map of the Mississippi and coast. 14 pp. AC., C 13, 12: 411. (Miss.) |
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