Cuvier, Georges: SEE ALSO Buffon & Cuvier, 1826; Griffith et al., 1827-32; Guérin-Méneville, F.E., 1829-44.
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Cuvier, Georges
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Tableau élémentaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux.
Paris, Baudouin: xvi + 710. 14 pls. Read Dec. 26, 1797; publ. An 6 [= 1797/98?].
–Allen 452. No. 772 in J. C. Smith, Georges Cuvier: an annotated bibliography of his published works, Smithsonian Inst. Press, 1993; see Smith 773-776 for Danish, German, Portuguese, and Spanish transls. Sirs., 172-173.
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Cuvier, Georges
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1800-05 |
Leçons d''anatomie comparée.... Recueillies et publiées sous ses yeux, par C. Duméril....
Paris, Baudouin (5 vols., 1800-05): Vol. 1: xxxi + 521. 7 tabs. Vol. 2: xvi + 697.
–J. C. Smith 710, 712; vols. 3-5 also issued by Genets in 1805 (Smith 711). Engl. & German transls., Smith 715-722. Ed. 2, Paris, Crochard & Cie., 1835-46 (Smith 713); ed. 3, Bruxelles, H. Dumont, 1836-40 (Smith 714).
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Cuvier, Georges
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Sur l'ostéologie du lamantin, sur la place que le lamantin et le dugong doivent occuper dans la méthode naturelle, et sur les os fossiles de lamantins et de phoques.
Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 13: 273-312. Pl. 19.
–Allen 496; J. C. Smith 256. Abstr.: Nouv. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. (Paris) (2)1, No. 24: 395-396, Sept. 1809 (Allen 497, Smith 265). Repr.: Cuvier (1812); also publ. as separate (no publisher or date given; 40 pp., 1 pl.; fide Smith).
Allen's annotation is apt: "This celebrated memoir marks an epoch in the literary history of the Sirenia. After giving a detailed history [273-282] of the views respecting the affinities of these animals entertained by previous writers, including the absurdities of mermaids and mermen, the author closes his historical résumé by stating that the Sirenia form three distinct genera, the Lamantins (of which he recognizes two species), the Dugong, and Steller's Sea-Cow, and that these three genera constitute a separate family, very different from the Seals, with which they had been previously placed, and a little nearer to the Cetacea than the Pachyderms are to the Carnivores. Buffon's four species of Lamantin he reduces to two. Then follows an account, with figures, of the osteology of the Brazilian Manatee [282-293]; a comparison of the skulls of the African and American Manatees [293-296], and a résumé of the distinctive structural features of Steller's Sea-Cow [296-299], whereby it is generically separated from the Dugong [300-302] and Manatees. Cuvier's results agree closely with the modern interpretation of the affinities and generic relations of these animals. It was left, however, for Desmarest to bestow technical names upon the species here first clearly distinguished, Cuvier throughout his memoir employing only the French vernacular names."
Allen, of course, erred in attributing priority to Desmarest's names. Cuvier's work also examines the existing records of fossil sirs., almost exclusively from France (303-309), and describes as "phoques" two fragments of humeri which were later recognized by de Christol (1840) as pertaining to Metaxytherium (309-311). The description of the "lamantin d'Amérique" (282-293; pl. 19, figs. 1-3, 8-10, 14-18) is based on a specimen that is said on p. 283 to have been sent from Cayenne; but it is apparently the same as that said on p. 281 to have come from Brazil. In any case it was correctly recognized by Natterer (in Diesing, 1839), Stannius (1845), and later writers as an Amazonian manatee. This is therefore the earliest description of the osteology of T. inunguis. Finally it may be noted that the historical summary at the start of this work is a very interesting précis of the history of sirenology from Oviedo (1535) up to Cuvier's time.
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Cuvier, Georges
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Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes, où l'on rétablit les caractères de plusieurs espèces d'animaux que les révolutions du globe paroissent avoir détruites.
Paris, Deterville (4 vols.).
–J. C. Smith 740; later eds., Smith 741-744; Engl. transls., Smith 745-746. Sirs., vol. 4 (pt. 4, art. 9): 1-40, 1 pl. (repr. of Cuvier, 1809).
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Cuvier, Georges
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Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée.... Tome I, contenant l'introduction, les mammifères et les oiseaux.
[Paris,] Deterville (4 vols.): Vol. 1: xxxvii + 540.
–Allen 552; J. C. Smith 747. Receipt of this publication was announced at the Dec. 2, 1816 meeting of the Académie des Sciences, fide Smith. Sirs., 273-275. Later eds.: Paris, 1829 (Allen 721, Smith 748; same as ed. 1 except for a few words added to the account of the dugong); New York, 1831 (Allen 759, Smith 753; scholarly transl. of 1829 French ed.); Paris, 1836 (Allen 889, Smith 750; the "disciples edition"; text unchanged from 1829); for other eds. & for Engl., German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, and Welsh transls., see Smith 749, 751-752, 754-771, 777, 779, 802.
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Cuvier, Georges
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Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles, où l'on rétablit les caractères de plusieurs animaux dont les révolutions du globe détruit les espèces.... Nouvelle édition [= ed. 2], entièrement refondue, et considérablement augmentée....
Paris & Amsterdam, G. Dufour & Ed. d'Ocagne: 5 vols. in 7.
–Allen 622, J. C. Smith 742. Sirs., 1: 332-334, pl. 7 (1821); 5(1): 235-271, pls. 19-20 (1823); 5(2): 527, 534 (1824). Later eds.: Paris, 1825 (Allen 655, Smith 743; "Troisième édition", apparently a reissue of the 1821-24 ed. with a new title-page); Paris, 1834-36 (Allen 888, Smith 744; "Quatrième édition", 10 vols. + 2-vol. atlas; sirs. in Vol. 8, Part 2, 1836). Engl. transls.: Smith 745-746.
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Buffon, George Louis Leclerc, Comte De; Cuvier, Georges
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1826 |
Oeuvres complètes de Buffon mises en ordre et précédées d'une notice historique par M. A. Richard ...; suivies de deux volumes sur les progrès des sciences physiques et naturelles depuis la mort de Buffon, par M. le Baron Cuvier....
Paris, Baudouin Frères & N. Delangle: 1-350.
–Allen 674. Sirs., 294-334.
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Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia 