NINETEENTH CENTURY. PT. in. 



CHAPTER XXXVIII. 



SCIENCE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (CONTINUED). 



The three Naturalists, Lamarck, Cuvier, and Geoffrey St. -Hilaire 

 Cuvier begins the Museum of Comparative Anatomy Lamarck's 

 History of Invertebrate Animals GeoffroySt.-Hilaire brings Natural 

 History Collections from Egypt Lamarck on the Development of 

 Animals Geoffroy St. -Hilaire on ' Homology,' or the similarity in 

 the parts of different Animals Cuvier's 'Regne Animal,' and his 

 Classification of Animals Cuvier on the perfect agreement between 

 the different parts of an Animal He studies and restores the re- 

 mains of Fossil Animals His ' Ossemens Fossiles ' Death of 

 Cuvier Von Baer on the study of Embryology His History of the 

 Development of Animals, 1828. 



Lamarck Cuvier St.-Hilaire. When Humboldt visited 

 Paris in 1804 there were three men holding professorships 

 in the Museum of Natural History in that city, who had 

 afterwards a great influence upon the study of the science 

 of living beings. These three men were Lamarck, pro- 

 fessor of zoology; Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, his fellow-professor; 

 and Cuvier, assistant-professor of comparative anatomy. 



The early part of the nineteenth century was, as you 

 will remember, a very troubled time for France. The first 

 Napoleon was carrying war and desolation all over Europe, 

 and Paris was kept in a constant state of turmoil for many 

 years. During all this time it is interesting to see how 

 steadily and quietly the three men I have mentioned pur- 

 sued their search after knowledge. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire 



