ABSTRACT
After the Revolution there was established in Paris a new Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, which was created out of Buffon’s old Jardin du Roi, and was more popularly known as the Jardin des Plantes. Twelve professorial chairs were assigned to the various branches of the subject, and filled by the leading life scientists of the day, including E. G. Saint-Hilaire, the geologist Brongniart, and the two most celebrated figures of all, the proto-evolutionist J. B. de Lamarck, and the man who is regarded as the effective founder of comparative anatomy, Georges Cuvier.1
