Volume 1

Lectures on comparative anatomy / translated from the French of G. Cuvier ... by William Ross ; under the inspection of James Macartney.

  • Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832.
Date:
1802
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Lectures on comparative anatomy / translated from the French of G. Cuvier ... by William Ross ; under the inspection of James Macartney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    LETTER FROM G. CUVIER, Of the National Institute of France, &c. TO JEAN CLAUDE ]\{ERTRUD, Professor of tiie Anatomy of Animals in the Museum of Natural History, Paris. The Book I addrefs to you, owes to you its exiflence; for, whatever interefl: my Lecflures may poffefs, has arifen from the ufe which you and your,colleagues have permitted me to make of the excellent colledlion now entrufted to your care—that collection, to the perfecftion of which you havefo greatly contributed, and from which Daubenton drexv, while he formed it, materials for the mofl: important part of an im- mortal work *. Enriched * Citizen Mertrud held the fituation of Demonftrator of Anatomy in the Garden of Plants, from 1750, until that efta- bli(hment was converted into a School of Natural Hiftory, when