Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

Isidore Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire ( born December 16, 1805 in Paris, † November 10, 1861 ) was a French zoologist and ethologist.

Life

Isidore Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire was the only son of zoologists Étienne Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire. Early on, he showed an aptitude for mathematics, but he later turned but the natural history and medicine. He became in 1824 assistant to the chair of his father. From 1832 to 1837 he published his great work Histoire générale et teratologisches particulière the anomalies de l' Organisation chez l' homme et les animaux.

After receiving his medical doctorate in 1829 ( Propositions sur la monstruosité ) Isidore Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire took over for his father, the second part of a series of lectures, which dealt with ornithology, and in the following three years he taught zoology at the Paris Athénée and teratology at the École pratique des hautes études. He was elected in 1833 as a member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. In 1837 he was under his father at the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Paris, but after a year already, he was sent to Bordeaux to conduct a similar faculty there.

Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire in 1840 inspector of the Paris Academy of Sciences, in the following year in succession to his father, a professor at the Muséum national d' Histoire naturelle in Paris. In 1844 he was appointed Inspector General of the Paris University, was appointed in 1845 the Royal Council for the school system. In 1850 he received the call to the professor of zoology at the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Paris.

Isidore Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire in 1854 founded the Paris Société nationale d' acclimatation and was its first chairman. In 1855 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Works

  • Memoir on asked an American. Phillips, London 1825.
  • Considérations générales sur les monstres. Tastu, Paris in 1826.
  • On the females of pheasants, Which assume the plumage of the male. Blackwood, Edinburgh 1827.
  • Propositions sur la monstruosité. Didot le Jeune, Paris, 1829.
  • Principes de philosophie zoologique. Pichon & Didier, Paris, 1830.
  • Etudes Zoologiques. Lequien, Paris 1832.
  • Histoire générale et particulière the anomalies de l' Organisation chez l' homme et les animaux ou Traité de Teratology. Baillière, Haumann & Cattoir, Paris, Brussels 1832-37.
  • Atlas contenant 20 planches avec leur explication et Table generale of auxiliary materials. Paris 1837.
  • Notice sur la zoology. Delossy & Bouchard - Huzard, Paris 1838.
  • Essais de zoology générale ou Mémoires et sur ​​la notices zoology générale, l' anthropologie et l' histoire de la science. Roret, Paris 1841-44.
  • Description of the collections de Victor Jacque Mont. Didot, Paris 1842-45.
  • Storia Naturale dei mammiferi. Milan 1844.
  • Vie, Travaux et doctrine scientifique d' Étienne Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire. Bertrand, Paris, 1847.
  • Lakanal, sa vie, ses travaux à la Convention et au Conseil des Cinq- cents. Joubert, Paris, 1849.
  • Catalogue méthodique de la collection of Mamiferes, de la collection des oiseaux et des collections annexes. Gide & Baudry, Paris, 1851.
  • Domestication et naturalization des animaux utiles. Dusacq, Paris 1854.
  • Histoire naturelle générale des règnes organiques, principalement étudiée chez l' homme et les animaux. Masson, Paris 1854-62.
  • Lettres sur les substances alimentaires et sur ​​la viande de cheval particulièrement. Masson, Paris, 1856.
  • Prononcé Discours sur le tombe de M. Duméril. Paris 1860.
  • Acclimatation domestication et des animaux utiles. Maison rustique, Paris, 1861.
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