140 LAMARCK, HIS LIFE AND WORK 
The French geologist Faujas,* who also published 
several articles on fossil animals, ceased his labors, 
and now Cuvier began his memorable work. 
The field of the labors and triumphs of paleon- 
tology were now transferred to France. We have 
seen that the year 1793, when Lamarck and Geof- 
froy Saint-Hilaire were appointed to fill the new 
zoological chairs, and the latter had in 1795 called 
Cuvier from Normandy to Paris, was a time of re- 
nascence of the natural sciences in France. Cuvier 
began a course of lectures on comparative anatomy 
at the Museum of Natural History. He wads more 
familiar than any one else in France with the prog- 
ress in natural science in Germany, and had felt the 
stimulus arising from this source; besides, as Blain- 
ville stated, he was also impelled by the questions 
boldly raised by Faujas in his geological lectures, 
who was somewhat of the school of Buffon. Cuvier, 
moreover, had at his disposition the collection of 
skeletons of the Museum, which was frequently in- 
creased by those of the animals which died in the 
menagerie. With his knowledge of comparative anat- 
omy, of which, after Vicq-d’Azyr, he was the chief 
founder, and with the gypsum quarry of Montmartre, 
that rich cemetery of tertiary mammals, to draw 
from, he had the whole field before him, and rapidly 
* Faujas Saint-Fond wrote articles on fossil bones (1794) ; on fossil 
plants both of France (1803) and of Monte Boleca (1820) ; on a fish 
from Nanterre (1802) and a fossil turtle (4803) ; on two species of 
fossil ox, whose skulls were found in Germany, France, and England 
(1803), and on an elephant’s tusk found in the volcanic tufa of Darbres 
(1803) ; on the fossil shells of Mayence (1806) ; and on a new genus 
(Clotho) of bivalve shells, 
