Lacépède, Comte de, French naturalist, born at Agen; was entrusted by Buffon to complete his Natural History on his death; wrote on his own account also the natural histories of reptiles, of fishes, and of man (1756‒1825).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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