WORK IN PALZONTOLOGY 14! 
built up his own vast reputation and thus added to 
Ene slory.of France. 
His first contribution to paleontology * appeared 
in 1798, in which he announced his intention of pub- 
lishing an extended work on fossil bones of quadru- 
peds, to restore the skeletons and to compare them 
with those now living, and to determine their rela- 
tions and differences; but, says Blainville, in the list 
of thirty or forty species which he enumerates in 
his tableau, none was apparently discovered by 
him, unless it was the species of “ dog”’ of Montmar- 
tre, which he afterward referred to his new genera 
Paleotherium and Anaplotherium. In 1801 (le 26 
brumaire, an IX.) he published, by order of the Insti- 
tut, the programme of a work on fossil quadrupeds, 
with an increased number of species; but, as Blain- 
ville states, “It was not until 1804, and in tome iil. 
of the Annales du Muscum, namely, more than three 
years after his programme, that he began his publi- 
cations by fragments and without any order, while 
these publications lasted more than eight years be- 
fore they were collected into a general work”; this 
“corps ad’ ouvrage’’ being the Ossemens fosstles, which 
was issued in 1812 in four quarto volumes, with an 
atlas of plates. 
Tt is with much interest, then, that we turn to 
Cuavier’s great work, which brought him such imme- 
diate and widespread fame, in order to see how he 
treated his subject. His general views are contained 
* Sur les ossemens qui se trouvent dans le gyps de Montmartre 
(Bulletin des sciences pour la Société philomatique, tomes I, 2, 17098, 
Ppp. 154-155). 
