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CUVIER'S RESEARCHES ON FOSSIL BONES. 



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/^UVIER'S GREAT WORK ON FOSSIL BONES.— The success of 

 ^"- / the English Version of Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, has induced the 

 Proprietor of that Work to undertake the publication of a Complete 

 Translation, Illustrated, of the Work of the same Author, universally con- 

 sidered as the noblest of his intellectual performances, 



LES RECHERCHES SUR LES OSSEMENS FOSSILES 

 (RESEARCHES ON FOSSIL BONES). 



This Work has been long regarded by the Geologists of all countries as 

 one of the most extraordinary productions that ever emanated from human 

 genius. It is allowed by every nation, and by none more promptly than 

 our own, that this contribution has changed the whole character of Geolo- 

 gical Science, and has created means for facilitating its study, such as 

 resembles more the revelations of an inspired intelligence, than the ordi- 

 nary triumphs of human reason, patience, and industry. 



The Rev. W. D. Conybeare, F.R.S. V.P.G.S. Corr. Memb. Institute 

 of France, &c, one of the most accomplished of the Geologists that exalt 

 the scientific character of our country; thus speaks of Cuvier's Work on 

 Fossil Bones, in his recent able Report, ohtained from him at the solicita- 

 tion of tbe British Association for the Advancement of Science : 



" The third School, or that of Tertiary Geology, owes its foundation to 

 the admirable Memoir on the Basin of Paris, published by Cuvier and 

 Brongniart in 1811. The high scientific distinction of Cuvier, and the 

 striking and interesting nature of the facts developed in his brilliant 

 Memoir, excited a marked sensation, and commanded the general atten- 

 tion cf men of science ; for none such could peruse with indifference those 

 masterly descriptions, which exhibited the environs of one of the great 

 metropolitan cities of Europe, as having been successively occupied by 

 oceanic inundations and fresh- water lakes ; which restored from the scat- 

 tered fragments of their disjointed skeletons, the forms of those animals 

 long extinct, whose flocks once grazed on the margin of those lakes, and 

 which presented to our notice, the case of beds of rock, only a few inches 

 in thickness, extending continuously over hundreds of square miles, and 

 constantly distinguished by the same peculiar species of fossil shells." 



From another part of this luminous Report, we extract the following 

 allusion to Cuvier, and his greatest work. 



" We have to deplore within the present year, the loss of that illus- 

 trious Naturalist who was the first to raise Comparative Anatomy to the 

 rank of an exact science, and, who, by his highly philosophical generaliza- 

 tion of the constant co-ordinate relations of the animal structure, became 

 at once the Newton of that science. Many an investigator, following the 

 paths he first pointed out, has reaped brilliant discoveries by the compara- 

 tively easy labour of decyphering the remains before him by the Key fully 

 furnished in the Ossemens Fossiles." 



This Work will be translated from the copious and complete Edition, 

 (The Fourth,) which is now in the course of publication at Paris, under the 

 superintendence of M. F. Cuvier, the brother of the illustrious author, who 

 has most materially enriched this edition by Notes which were collected 

 by Cuvier himself, in his life -time. 



London : G. Henderson, 2, Old Bailey. 



