34 MEMOIR OF CUVIER. 



he was retained in the Universities, and was con- 

 sul d and assisted in the changes which were thought 

 necessary there; while, after the second restora- 

 tion of the Bourbons, he was actively employed in 

 every sort of administration, connected with the Coro- 

 m:ttee of the Interior attached to the Council of 

 State. In 18*26, he officiated as one of the Presi- 

 dents at the coronation of Charles X. ; and, after the 

 last Revolution, he was not only named a Peer of 

 France by the Citizen-King, but, at the time of his 

 unexpected death, the appointment of President to 

 the entire Council of State waited for the royal sig- 

 nature. Thus, we see his early course of study use- 

 fully brought forward; for it must be recollected that 

 law and administration were the branches which he 

 entered upon from choice, in the University of Stutt- 

 gard, and that the study of Nature was employed as 

 a relaxation, from his more severe legal and literary 

 engagements. As, however, it is more with his ca- 

 reer as a naturalist than as a statesman that we have 

 now to deal, let us look back and trace his labours, 

 from his appointment in the Jardin des Plantes til! 

 the second restoration of the Bourbons. 



We have seen the occupations of Cuvier since 

 the time of his arrival in Paris to the period to which 

 we have brought down his history, to have been al- 

 most more than sufficient for any ordinary mind, 

 The lectures which were to be delivered in his si- 

 tuations in the Garden, were of themselves an ar- 

 duous task ; but no part of the administration to 



