Manila folder labelled 'Prosper Garnot'

Containers:

Box 1 (MS Acc22.020)

Component identifier:

File 16

Content Summary:

This file contains photocopies relating to the life and work of Prosper Garnot (1794–1838) surgeon and naturalist aboard the Coquille during Louis Isidore Duperrey's expedition. With René Primevère Lesson, Garnot was in charge of zoological observations and specifically charged with ornithology. He left Duperrey's expedition in Port Jackson, New South Wales, in March 1824 because of illness. The grass genus Garnotia was named in his honour by Adolphe Brongniart in 1829. The file contains Duyker's correspondence (2017) with Marguerite Holloway, Columbia Journalism School, regarding Garnot, the text of Garnot's article about the echidna 'Observations sur l'Echidné épineux', Annales des Sciences naturelles, série 1, vol. 6, 1825, pp. 504–8. It also contains Garnot's account of his shipwreck on the George IV, at San Sebastian Bay on the eastern coast of the Cape of Good Hope, extracted from the 'Zoologie' volume of Duperrey, L. I. (ed.), Voyage autour du Monde : Exécuté par Ordre du Roi sur La Corvette de sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825, Sous le Minstère de S. E. M. le Marquis de Clermont-Tonnerre, et publiée sous les auspices de Son Excellence M. le comte de Chabrol, ministère de la Marine et des Colonies, Arthus Bertrand, Paris, 1826–1830

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.

Subjects:

Exploration
History

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