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and the following year appeared his paper on the nutri- 

 tion of insects. 1 



In 1799 he succeeded Daubenton (the collaborator 

 of Buffon) in the chair of natural history at the College 

 de France ; and finally succeeded Mertrud in the chair 

 of comparative anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes. 



In 1800 he published his first palseontological paper, 

 Memoires sur les Especes d Elephants vivants et fossils, 

 and the quantity and quality of the palseontological 

 work which he turned out is simply astounding, 



After the publication of his great work, Leqons dAna- 

 tomie Comparee, in 1802, Napoleon (then First Consul) 

 appointed Cuvier one of the inspectors-general for establish- 

 ing lycees in thirty towns. At the same time he was 

 elected Secretaire perpetuel de 1' Academic des Sciences 

 (1'Institut de France), and was consequently brought 

 into contact with all the celebrated men of science in 

 the French capital. 



In the same year (1804) that saw Napoleon created 

 Emperor and crowned by Pope Pius VII. , Cuvier married 

 a widow Madame Duvaucel (whose husband was &fermier 

 general, and along with Lavoisier and others suffered 

 death by decapitation). His marriage was a happy one. 



From 1809 to 1813 Cuvier was sent on an important 

 educational mission to Holland, Italy, and Germany; 



1 See Griffiths' books, The Physiology of the Invert ebrata, and 

 Respiratory Proteids. 



