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George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Biography
Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) French naturalist, popularized zoological science and anticipated the evolutionary ideas of Lamarck and Darwin.
C.A. Saint-Beuve, Portraits of the Eighteenth Century, Historic and Literary, Vol II. (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1909) 246.
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