LIBRARY > Digital edition: Lib. Cat. No. PERR1671 > “Description Anatomique d’un Cameleon.” (1st edn., Paris, 1669) Reissued in Memoires pour servir a l’histoire naturelle des animaux. A Paris: de l’Imprimerie Royale, M.DC.LXXI [1671]. 12–27. By Claude Perrault (1613–1688) and “the Ingenious Philosophers” of the Académie Royale des Sciences. Englished by Alexander Pitfield (1658–1728), with illustrations by Richard Waller (c.1660–1715).

First Published:  September 2012
Revised (substantive):  9 May 2021

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S O R R Y,  but this e-publication page — with an HTML transcript of the first anatomical description of the chameleon, by Claude Perrault and “the Ingenious Philosophers” of the Académie Royale des Sciences, published originally as Description Anatomique d’un Caméleon, d’un Castor, d’un Dromedaire, d’un Ours, et d’une Gazelle (Paris, 1669), then reissued as Memoires pour Servir a l’Histoire Naturelle des Animaux (Paris, 1671), and Englished by Alexander Pitfield as Memoir’s for a Natural History of Animals, with illustrations by Richard Waller (London, 1688) — is still under construction.

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