ABSTRACT
Cuvier’s papers passed to his family on his death. As his closest male relative, Frédéric Cuvier passed them to his son, also Frédéric, who on his own death in 1890 willed the papers for the most part to the Institut de France. A smaller portion passed to the Library of the Muséum. Comparison of Brianchon, 1876-7, with the catalogues cited below, makes it clear that some material, including the complete text of Cuvier’s autobiography, truncated successively by Mme Cuvier and by Pierre Flourens, was forever lost in the intervening sixty years.
