Pierre-Auguste BROUSSONNET (1761-1807) physician, naturalist and botanist. L.A.S. as Perpetual Secretary of the Royal Society of Agriculture, Paris May 8, 1788, to M. de La Bergerie; 1page in-4. He informs him that "the Royal Society of Agriculture has chosen you at its meeting today to fill the place of member vacated by the death of M. le Cte de Buffon; the Society hopes that you will continue to inform it of your work and be as assiduous as you have been up to now at its meetings"...