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Patrick Russell (1727–1805), surgeon and polymath naturalist by Das, I.

“…The life and times of Patrick Russell (1727–1805), a Scottish medical practitioner and natural historian from Edinburgh, are traced, with emphasis on his work in the Ottoman town of Aleppo (currently, Halab, in north-western Syria), with that of his halfbrother, Alexander Russell (1715–1768), and along the Coromandel Coast (in eastern India). …”
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Herpetology of an antique land: the history of herpetological explorations and knowledge in India and south Asia by Das, I.

“…Many of the rulers were keen natural historians and kept memoirs that often recorded specific information on amphibians and reptiles.…”
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Metabolic depression: a historical perspective by Withers, P., Cooper, Christine

“…An extended period of inactivity and reduced metabolic rate of many animals and plants, as well as unicellular organisms, has long been recognized by natural historians, e.g., Aristotle and Pliny. Biologists have studied this phenomenon since the 1550s (Gessner) and 1700s (Van Leeuwenhoek, Buffon). …”
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