304 Documents in Commemoration of Baron. Cuvier. 
often since observed that the exercise of his professorship, by giving 
activity to his lungs, restored him to health. Being appointed pro- 
fessor of natural history at the central school of the Pantheon, he 
dignified that station by the publication of his Tableau du Régne Ani- 
mal, which, notwithstanding its elementary appearance, has served:as 
the basis of all subsequent labors in classifications of zoology. He 
published, a short time after, his Leeons d’anatomie comparée (five 
volumes in 8yo.) which were afterwards designated by the Institute 
as having merited the grand decennial prize for the work which had 
contributed most to the advancement of knowledge in relation to 
the natural sciences. This work, abridged from his course, was ed- 
ited under his inspection, at first, by his friend Dameril, and then, 
(the last three volumes) by his relative, M. Duvernoy. At the same 
period he published a series of memoirs on the anatomy of the mol- 
sca, and then entered upon a detailed examination of the fossil 
relics of mammiferous animals. He devoted his attention particularly 
to the numerous fossils of the environs of Paris, and was assisted in 
the geological part of his labor by his friend Alexander Brongni 
The sagacity and precision which he bestowed in the determination 
of fossil bones, erected his study into anew science, which has 
thrown a brilliant light upon geology, and given it a far: more. philo- 
sophical direction. A multitude of learned works and pre 
Memoirs published since that time by various naturalists; have” de- 
‘Monstrated the prodigious influence which the labors of Cuvierhave 
‘exercised over the study of geology, of the animal kingdom, and 
even on that of vegetable fossils. M. Cuvier refreshed himself in 
“the. intervals of those extended works, by special researches, which 
‘Se "would have been sufficient to add lustre to any other man ;—sue! 
are his beautiful memoirs on the chaunt of birds, on crocodl 
on a great number of the diversified topics of zoology 5 mt a 
also, his description of the living animals of the menagerie, Suc. ~ 
_all subjects, even of the minutest detail, we observe that clear, lumin- 
ous ¢ and methodical ee and that Sree _— so oa 
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