CHAPTER VI 

 CUVIER AND STRUCTURAL ZOOLOGY 



AFTER Linnaeus had founded natural history and 

 started activity in collecting and classifying animals 

 zoology was soon in ripe condition for a new depar- 

 ture. The method of Linnaeus brought about a 

 general familiarity with the animal kingdom, but so 

 long as studies were confined to externals and to the 

 organism as a whole no deep-seated advance could 

 be made. 



Cuvier now came forward, and by a more incisive 

 analysis, he placed emphasis on the study of struc- 

 ture as the key to the knowledge of animal life. 

 When structure is pursued to its limit, by embracing 

 microscopic as well as gross anatomy and the process 

 of development, it makes a very important division of 

 zoological study. This is structural zoology or com- 

 parative anatomy. The combination of the various 

 studies that fall under this head are commonly 

 designated morphological studies and the term 

 morphology is used to embrace them all. 



In order to complete the picture of animal life 



there is needed the complementary division of 



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