Abbé Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752 – September 20, 1804) was a French
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Abbé Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752 – September 20, 1804) was a French
France
France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France.... naturalist
Natural history
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Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique
The Tableau encyclop?dique et m?thodique des trois regnes de la nature was an illustrated encyclopedia of plants, animals and minerals, notable for including the first scientific descriptions of many species, and for its attractive engravings.... . He is also notable as the first scientist to study the feral child
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Bonnaterre is credited with identifying about 25 new species of fish, and assembled illustrations of about 400 in his encyclopedia work.
