RÉAUMUR, René Antoine Ferchault de (1683 – 1757)

1712

#301

Sur les diverses reproductions qui se font dans les écrevisses, les omars, les crabes....

Réaumur showed that crustaceans replace their lost limbs, a fact until then disputed.

1734 –1742

#304

Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire des insectes. 6 vols.

Réaumur’s greatest work describes the appearance, habits and locality of all the known insects except the beetles, and includes 267 plates. Posthumously published: Tome VII: Histoire des fourmis, (Paris: Paul Lecheval…

1740

#2028.5

Avis pour donner du secours à ceux qui l’on croit noyez.

In this unsigned 4-page pamphlet the author argued that those who had been drowned for several hours could be resuscitated. His ideas inspired the formation of the Amsterdam Society (No. 2028.51). This anonymous work …

1756

#979

Sur la digestion des oiseaux.

Using a pet buzzard, de Réaumur succeeded in isolating the gastric juice and demonstrating its solvent effect on foods.

1926

#9656

The natural history of ants: From an unpublished manuscript in the Academy of Sciences of Paris. Translated and annotated by William Morton Wheeler.

French and English text. The French text was first published in France as the 7th volume of Reaumur's Mémoires, Paris, 1928.

1943

#12123

Correspondence inédite entre Réaumur et Abraham Trembley, comprenant 113 lettres, recueillies et annotées par Maurice Trembley. Introduction par Emile Guyenot.

1987

#12124

Nature's enigma: The problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Réaumur