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5673. NATURAL HISTORY, Buffon and.—[further continued].

I have made a particular
acquaintance with Monsieur de Buffon, and
have a great desire to give him the best idea
I can of our elk. You could not oblige me more
than by sending me the horns, skeleton and
skin of an elk, were it possible to procure them.
* * * Everything of this kind is precious
here [France].—
To Archibald Stuart. Washington ed. i, 518. Ford ed., iv, 189.
(P. 1786)
See Buffon.