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| | Ed Rogers Rare & Out of Print Books - Rare Paleontology Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | He includes detailed descriptions of: New Zealand flax and its manufacture in Sydney, colonial farms, small-pox epidemic among the aborigines, the kangaroo, koalas, wombats, emus, and other Australian flora and fauna, leprosy, the opium trade, the museum at Macao, the Ungka ape, Chinese plantations, the cocoa-nut tree, andc. |
 | | His numerous achievements have led to his being characterized as "the greatest of the physician-naturalists of Australia". |
 | | A noted French geologist and mineralogist; Brongniart (1770-1847) published several works on mineralogy and while director of a porcelain factory he helped develop the science of ceramic chemistry. |
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