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See also: born on the 26th of See also: September 1816 at See also: Paris, where he obtained the diplomas of See also: doctor of science and of See also: medicine, and in 1835 he began palaeontological research as assistant in the laboratory of See also: comparative anatomy at the Museum of Natural See also: History
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In 1841 he obtained the chair of zoology and comparative anatomy at the Faculty of Sciences in See also: Montpellier, of which he was in 1856 appointed dean
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In 1848-1852 appeared his important See also: work Zoologie et paleontologie franoises, supplementary to the palaeontological publications of G
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Cuvier and H
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M
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D. de Blainville; of this a second and greatly improved edition was issued in 1859
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In 1865 he accepted the professorship of zoology at the See also: Sorbonne, vacant through the See also: death of L
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P
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Gratiolet; this See also: post he See also: left in 1868 for the chair of comparative anatomy at the Paris museum of natural history, the anatomical collections of which were greatly enriched by his exertions
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He died in Paris on the loth of See also: February 1879
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He also wrote Histoire naturelle See also: des mammiferes (1853, &c.); Zoologie medicate (1859, with P
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J. See also: van Beneden) ; Recherches sur l'anciennete de l'homme et la periode quaternaire, 19 pl
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(1867) ; Zoologie et paleontologie generates (1867) ; Osteographie des cetaces (1869, &c., with van Beneden) . |
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