LA REGNE' ANIMAL DISTRIBUE' D' APRES SON ORGANISATION POUR SERVIR DE BASE A' L' HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES ANIMAUX ET D' INTRODUCTION A' L' ANATOMIE COMPAREE. PARIS, DETERVILLE 1817 1817

4 VOLUMI IN- 8°, M. PELLE COEVA. COMPLESSIVE 2076 PP. E 15 TAVOLE INCISE IN RAME F.T. NEL VOL. IV, UN OCCHIETTO ANTISTANTE LE TAVOLE É STATO OMESSO IN ORIGINE. ESEMPLARE INTONSO DELLA RARA EDIZIONE ORIGINALE. IL CUVIER, ANATOMISTA, ZOOLOGO E GEOLOGO FRANCESE, PROFESSORE A PARIGI, FU CONSIDERATO IL FONDATORE DELL' ANATOMIA COMPARATA E DELLA PALEONTOLOGIA. << OUVRAGE FONDAMENTAL OÙ LES CLASSIFICATIOS ONT POUR BASE L' ANATOMIE COMPARÉE ET OÙ L' ÉTUDE DES ESPÈCES VIVANTES SE TROUVE POUR LA PREMIÈRE FOIS ASSOCIÉEÀ CELLE DES ESPÈCES FOSSILES. ET C' EST SUR CETTE DOUBLE DONNÉE QUE REPOSE LA ZOOLOGIE DU DIX-NEUVIÈME SIÈCLE>> (HOEFER, HISTOIRE DE LA ZOOLOGIE, P. 361). << CUVIER'S MOST COMPREHENSIVE EFFORT, AND THAT BY WHICH HE IS BEST KNOWN, IS LE RÈGNE ANIMAL. THIS FORMIDABLE WORCK EMBODIE TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF RESEARCH ON LIVING FORMS. IT WAS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE BIOLOGICAL WORK SINCE LINNAEUS.>> (SINGER, HISTORY OF BIOLOGY, PP. 231-37). << IN HIS DAY CUVIER EXERTED AN ENORMUS INFLUENCE ON SCIENCE. HE PLAYED A LEADING PART IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENCE OF PALEONTOLOGY AND STIMULATED THE STUDY OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY.>> (GARRISON - MORTON, MEDICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY, 327). << THE MOST INFLUENTIAL EXPOSITION OF THE TYPOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ANIMAL CLASSIFICATION, REPRESENTING THE GREATEST BOODY OF ZOOLOGICAL FACTS THAT HAD YET BEEN ASSEMBLED.>> (H.F. NORMAN LIBRARY, 567). D.S.B., III, PP. 521.28. AGASSIZ, II, P. 148. B.M.C. (NATURAL HISTORY), I, P. 410. WOOD, LITER. OF VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY, P. 307. NISSEN, ZOOLOGISCHE BUCHILLUSTRATION, 1013. COLEMAN G. CUVIER ZOOLOGIST, PP. 74-106. LA NASCITA DELL' ANATOMIA COMPARATA.