D'Azara, FELIX, naturalist, was born in Aragon in 1746, entered the army, and in 1781 was appointed a commissioner for defining the Spanish and Portuguese possessions in South America. He wrote an important Natural History of the Quadrupeds of Paraguay (1801; Eng. trans. 1838), and Voyages dans l'Amérique Méridionale (4 vols. 1809). He died in Spain in 1811.
D'Azara, FELIX
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 704
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