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BIOGRAPHICAL 
MEMOIR OE DAUBENTON. 
BY 
BARON CUVIER. 
Lotjis-Jean-Mabib Daubenton, Member of the Senate 
and of the Institute, Professor of Natural History to 
the Museum and the College of France, Member of the 
Academies and Scientific Societies of Berlin, Peters- 
burg, London, Florence, Lausanne, Philadelphia, &c., 
formerly Stipendiary Anatomist to the Academy of 
Sciences, Curator and Demonstrator to the Cabinet of 
Natural History, was born at Montbar, in the depart- 
ment of C6te d'Or, on the 29th May, 1716, of Jean 
Daubenton, notary in that place, and Marie Pichenot. 
He was distinguished from his infancy for the gentle- 
ness of his manners ; and he obtained from the Jesuits 
of Dijon, where he first studied, all those little distinc- 
tions so flattering to youth, without being always the 
presages of more lasting success. These he remembered 
with pleasure to the close of his life, and always pre- 
served the written testimonials. 
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