Darwin Correspondence Project

French systematist, comparative anatomist, palaeontologist and administrator. Professor of natural history, Collège de France, 1800–32; professor of comparative anatomy, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1802–32. Permanent secretary to the Académie des Sciences from 1803. Foreign member, Royal Society of London, 1806.

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