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Promerops or bee-eater of North California
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Benoît-Louis Prévost
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G. G. & J. Robinson
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Image date:
1798
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plate 37; atlas
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Description:
Promerops or a California thrasher on a branch.
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La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788
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Source Title:
[Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde. English] A voyage round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788
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[Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde. English] A voyage round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788
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London
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Printed by A. Hamilton, for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row; J. Edwards, Pall-Mall; and T. Payne, Mews-gate, Castle-Street.
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Source date:
1798-99
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Sugarbirds are of the scientific genus Promerops and are restricted to southern Africa. This bird is probably the California thrasher (Scientific name: Toxostoma redivivum) found in California and Baja California. The French decided to mount a scientific and exploration voyage to rival that of Captain James Cook. Two ships, the Boussole and the Astrolabe, under La Perouse's command left France in August 1785. They spent the summer of 1786 off the coasts of Alaska looking for a northwest passage then sailed down the west coast of North America in August and September 1786. In September they crossed the Pacific Ocean to Asia. They first sailed north and then south to Australia which they reached in January 1788. In mid-March both ships were wrecked on a coral reef near the island of Vanikoro with all hands lost. Thirty years later remains were found, and islanders reported that survivors had built a boat and headed out to sea, but none were ever heard from again. La Perouse sent letters back to Europe from Manila, Macao, and Australia; this is how the voyage is known. In October 1787 he had also sent a Russian-speaking officer, Jean Baptiste Barthélemy, Baron de Lesseps (1766-1834) overland from Kamchatka with documents, charts, and journals. De Lesseps traveled through Siberia to St. Petersburg and then to Paris, arriving late in 1788. In May 1791, when it seemed clear that La Pérouse would not return, the revolutionary government commissioned former army officer Louis Antoine Milet-Mureau (1756-1825) to edit a book from these materials, which was published in Paris in four volumes with an atlas in 1797. A second French edition was required the following year, and English translations appeared in 1798, 1799, 1801, and 1807; German and Dutch editions were published between 1799 and 1804.
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Time Period:
1751-1800
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Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
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Owner and copyright:
�John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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�John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
North America
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North America
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Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
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Subject headings:
Natural history--North America
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