Buffon's Birds - Black and White

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), was a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist, philosopher, and writer.

A member of both the French Academy of Sciences and the French Academy, he was a key figure in the Enlightenment. His theories influenced two generations of naturalists, notably Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin. Praised by his contemporaries for his seminal work, *Histoire naturelle*, Buffon was dubbed the "Pliny of Montbard."