This is your chance to adopt Exploration scientifique de l’Algérie (1846-49) by Hippolyte Lucas! Conceived and directed by the naturalist Bory de Saint Vincent, one of the first modern, systematic biological surveys of northern Africa was undertaken by the French government in the early 1840s and resulted in a multi-volume series of scientific publications under <a href="http://blog.library.si.edu/2014/11/adopt-exploration-scientifique-de-lalgerie/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>
