Edmond Perrier

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Jean Octave Edmond Perrier ( born May 9, 1844 in Tulle, † July 31, 1921 in Paris) was a French zoologist and anatomist.

Life

Edmond Perrier came from an old family from Tulle. His father Antoine Perrier, director of l' École supérieure de Tulle, his mother 's maiden name was Jeanne Perrier Roche. His brother, Remy Perrier (* June 14, 1861 Tulle, † June 27, 1936 Chaunac ) was as a well-known zoologist. Edmond was educated first at the Collège de Tulle, and later in Paris Lycée Bonaparte, now Condorcet. He received a degree in 1864 from the École polytechnique in each case and the École normale supérieure.

He then decided, on the advice of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), normal for the École supérieure option, where he among other things, participated in courses in zoology from Félix Joseph Henri de Lacaze - Duthiers ( 1821-1901 ). In 1866 he received the degree in mathematics and physics, and left them with a agrégation de sciences physiques et naturelles the following year. First, Edmond Perrier taught three years in a school of Agen. In 1868 he obtained a position as scientific assistant naturalist at the Muséum national d' histoire naturelle of Lacaze - Duthiers and was in 1869 a PhD student of the natural sciences. He replaced his former teacher in 1872 Professor Lacaze - Duthiers at the École normale supérieure.

In 1876 he held the chair of natural history for mollusks, worms, and zoophytes (this term is no longer used in modern biology, and today it stands for sponges, coral and sea anemones ) holds. He led in 1879 to the presidency of the Société zoologique de France. From 1880 to 1885 he participated in several expeditions to studies of the benthic fauna, aboard the Travailleur and the Talisman. Edmond Perrier acquired brings an international reputation as a specialist for marine life.

On December 12, 1892 Edmond Perrier became the elected member of the Académie des sciences in the sections anatomy and zoology, before finally in 1915 its president. In 1898 he was appointed an honorary member of the Académie nationale de médecine. Between 1900 and 1919 he was also director of the Muséum national d' histoire naturelle in Paris. In 1903, he joined the section and took over the chair of comparative anatomy, which after the death of Henri Filhols ( 1843-1902 ) became vacant. He was also a member and president of the Société nationale de protection de la nature - a post he held until his death in 1921.

Writings (selection )

• Les Colonies animales et la formation of organismes (Paris, Edite par G.Masson, 1881).
• Anatomy physiology et animales (Paris, 1882).
• Les Principaux types of êtres vivants of cinq parties du monde (Paris, 1882).
• La philosophy zoologique avant Darwin. Paris 1884 ( biography of Lamarck, online)
• Les sous- marine exploration (Paris, 1886).
• Notions de zoology, enseignement secondaire spécial (1887 ).
• L' intelligence des animaux (Paris, 1887, 2 volumes ).
• Le transformisme (Paris, 1888).
• Éléments d' anatomie et de animales Physiology (Paris, 1888).
• Éléments de sciences physiques et naturelles avec leur application à l'agriculture et à l' hygiène (1891 ).
• Tachygénèse ou Acceleration embryogénique (1902, avec Charles Gravier, Edite par G.Masson ).
• La Femme dans la nature, dans les dans la legende moeurs, dans la société (1910, Paris, Maison d' Edition Bong et Cie )
• La vie dans les planètes (1911, Paris, Éditions de la revue)
• Les robes de noces des animaux (1912, Éditions Plon ).
• La Terre avant l' Histoire. Les Origines de la Vie et de l' Homme (Paris, " La Renaissance du livre ", 1920).
• A travers le monde vivant ( 1921).
• Traité de zoology, colossal oeuvre commencée en 1885 par son frère et achevee Rémy.