Note 126 — Chapter XIII · THE EVOLUTIONARY VIEWS OF BUFFON AND OF GEOFFROY ST. HILAIRE
Reading edition
Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière. 1st edition. Imprimerie royale. Paris: 1749–1804, 44 vols. 4to. Tome iv., p. 357. This is the best of all the editions of Buffon, says Flourens, from whose Histoire des Travaux et des Idées de Buffon, 1st edition (Paris, 1844), we take some of the quotations and references, which, however, we have verified. We have also quoted some passages from Buffon translated by Butler in his “Evolution, Old and New” (London, 1879).