Cuvier, GEORGES

LEOPOLD CHRETIEN FREDERIC DAGOBERT, BARON, 1769-1832. Father of Comparative Anatomy and Paleontology; prof. Paris 1795. He covered a very wide field, but studied principally the Mollusks, Fishes, and Fo il Vertebrates. The cla ification of Linnæus was based on isolated and analogical characters. C. based his on homological relations, ascertained by the sum of all the structural facts; but as he did not take the facts of embryology into consideration, his system in its later developments at the hands of his succe ors has been modified. He divided the Invertebrates into Mollusks, Articulates, and Radiates. Comparative Anatomy, 1801-5; Animal Kingdom , 1817; Fishes , 1828.