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RENE ANTOINE EERCHAULT, Seigneur de Réaumur, was born at La Roohelle in 1683. After a short course of training in the law, he devoted himself to the serious study of mathematics, and at the age of twenty-four years was admitted a member of the Academy of Sciences. His life for the next fifty years was one of constant application to scientific research in the departments of physics, metallurgy, crystallography, and meteorology, as well as natural history. His work included experiments on torsion, on the ductility of metals, on the manufacture of steel, of tin-plate, and of porcelain. In physics he investigated the temperature of mixtures, and devised the scale which long remained the prevailing system of thermometric graduation on the Continent.
The Natural History of Ants: from an Unpublished Manuscript in the Archives of the Academy of Sciences of Paris.
By René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur. Translated and annotated by Prof. W. M. Wheeler. Pp. xvii + 280 + 4 plates. (New York and London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.) 25s.
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D., F. The Natural History of Ants: from an Unpublished Manuscript in the Archives of the Academy of Sciences of Paris . Nature 120, 356–357 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120356a0
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