Question: What is the name of this English naturalist, geologist and biologist who mentioned the French botanist, Henri Lecoq, 1859 in the preface of his book?
Sentence (from "Pierre Boitard"): As well as describing and classifying the Tasmanian devil, he is notable for his fictional natural history "Paris avant les hommes" ("Paris Before Man"), published posthumously in 1861, which described a prehistoric ape-like human ancestor living in the region of Paris.
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