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He was born in Paris, the son of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. In his earlier years he showed an aptitude for mathematics, but eventually he devoted himself to the study of natural history and of medicine, and in 1824 he was appointed assistant naturalist to his father. In 1832-1837 he published his great teratological work, Histoire générale et particulière des anomalies de l’organisation chez l’homme et les animaux.
In 1829 he delivered for his father the second part of a course of lectures on ornithology, and during the three following years he taught zoology at the Athne, and teratology at the Ecole pratique. He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1833, was in 1837 appointed to act as deputy for his father at the faculty of sciences in Paris, and in the following year was sent to BordeauxBordeaux (Bordeu in Gascon) is a port city in the south-west of France, and is the prefecture (administrative capital) of the Gironde departement and the Aquitaine region''. Its inhabitants are called Bordelais''. The population of the metropolitan area ( to organize a similar faculty there. He became successively inspector of the academy of Paris (1840), professor of the museum on the retirement of his father (1841), inspector-general of the university (1844), a member of the royal council for public instruction (1845), and on the death of Henri Marie Ducrotay de BlainvilleHenri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville ( September 12, 1777 May 1, 1850) was a French zoologist and anatomist. Blainville was born at Arques, near Dieppe. In about 1796 he went to Paris to study painting, but he ultimately devoted himself to natural history,, professor of zoology at the faculty of sciences (1850). In 1854 he founded the Acclimatization Society of Paris, of which he was president.
Besides the above-mentioned works, he wrote: Essais de zoologie generale (1841); Vie Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1847); Acclimatation et domestication des animaux utiles (1849); Lettres sur les substances alimentaires et particulièrement sur la viande de cheval (1856); and Histoire naturelle générale des règnes organiques (3 vols., 1854-1862), which was not quite completed. He was the author also of various papers on zoology, comparative anatomyEvolutionary biology Comparative anatomy is the study of similarities and differences in organisms. It is closely related to evolutionary biology (see evolution) and with phylogeny (the evolution of organism development). Two major concepts of comparative and palaeontology.
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. 1911 Britannica
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