THE STOKY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE 



GEORGES CUVIER 



lish surveyor. He was brilliantly educated, had early 

 gained recognition as a scientist, and while yet a young 

 man had come to be known as the foremost comparative 

 anatomist of his time. It was the anatomical studies 

 that led him into the realm of fossils. Some bones dug 

 out of the rocks by workmen in a quarry were brought 

 to his notice, and at once his trained eye told him that 

 they were different from anything he had seen before. 



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