Velain, Charles. Remarques au sujet de la faune des îles Saint-Paul et Amsterdam (océan Indien), suivies d'une description des mollusques testacés de ces deux îles, par M. Ch. Vélain. Paris: C. Reinwald, 1878.
147 p., plates, colored map. ; 8°
Letter from Velain to Watson discussing sharing research and use of Velain's book on Île Saint-Paul (Saint Paul Island), an island forming part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands in the Indian Ocean; mentions describing of the land mollusks and requests a trade ("e'changer avec vous") of specimens from the H.M.S. Challenger expedition. Bi-folium, on Sorbonne letterhead, dated 24 June 1879; signed at end, Paris.
Charles VELAIN, 1845-1925, was a French geologist, naturalist, scholar, and geographer, who took part in several scientific expeditions.
Rev Dr Robert Boog WATSON, 1823-1910, a Scottish malacologist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland best known as the author of the report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected during the H.M.S. Challenger expedition to survey the world's oceans from 1873 to 1876. Wikipedia
“When the French expedition was sent to the Island of St. Paul, in 1874, for the purpose of observing the transit of Venus, which occurred on the 9th of December in that year, it was fortunately accompanied by an able zoologist, M. Ch. Velain.” Lee, Henry. Sea Monsters Unmasked, 2012 (googlebook)
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