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100 1 _aCuvier, Georges,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe Animal Kingdom :
_bArranged in Conformity with its Organization.
_nVolume 9,
_pThe Class Reptilia /
_cGeorges Cuvier, Edited and translated by Edward Griffith.
264 1 _aPlace of publication not identified :
_bpublisher not identified,
_c1831.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press
300 _a1 online resource (588 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge library collection. Zoology
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aGeorges Cuvier (1769-1832), made a peer of France in 1819 in recognition of his work, was perhaps the most important European scientist of his day. His most famous work, Le Règne Animal, was published in French in 1817; Edward Griffith (1790-1858), a solicitor and amateur naturalist, embarked on in 1824, with a team of colleagues, an English version which resulted in this illustrated sixteen-volume edition with additional material, published between 1827 and 1835. Cuvier was the first biologist to compare the anatomy of fossil animals with living species, and he named the now familiar 'mastodon' and 'megatherium'. However, his studies convinced him that the evolutionary theories of Lamarck and St Hilaire were wrong, and his influence on the scientific world was such that the possibility of evolution was widely discounted by many scholars both before and after Darwin. Volume 9 covers the class of reptiles.
700 1 _aGriffith, Edward,
_eeditor of compilation,
_etranslator.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108049627
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
_pZoology.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139226998
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