(1827) Author: Georges Cuvier, Iconographie du règne animal (Iconography of the Animal Kingdom) ARTISTS TRAVIES, PRETRE AND GUERIN

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_____Georges Cuvier is credited with almost single-handedly founding the discipline of vertebrate paleontology. Perhaps his greatest achievement was establishing that there were previous lifeforms that had become extinct. He contributed to the study of vertebrate and invertebrate zoology and paleontology, as well as the history of science. Cuvier began his career in Normandy, and came to Paris in 1795 at the invitation of Geoffroy St. Hilaire, where he became a professor of animal anatomy and superintendent of the zoo at the Museum of Natural History. Appointed a state councillor by Napoleon, he continued to pursue his research and lecturing in natural history. He was recognized by being knighted and made a Baron and Peer of France._____