BONNET, (CHARLES).

Recherches sur la Respiration des Chinelles.

(Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1768). 4to. Extract from "Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans", Tome V. Pp. 276-303.

First printing of a classic study of caterpillar respiration.

"Bonnet is considered one of the fathers of modern biology. He is distinguished for both his experimental research and his philosophy, which exerted a profound influence upon the naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. " (D.S.B. II: 286).

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