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Mary Morland was born in 1797, the eldest child of Benjamin Morland (1768–1833), a successful solicitor with a practice in Abingdon-on-Thames, [3] and his wife Harriet (née Baster). [4] In 1799 Harriet died, following the birth and early death of the couple's second child, and in 1802 Benjamin married Elizabeth Thornhill.
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier was born in Montbéliard, where his Protestant ancestors had lived since the time of the Reformation. [11] His mother was Anne Clémence Chatel; his father, Jean-Georges Cuvier, was a lieutenant in the Swiss Guards and a bourgeois of the town of Montbéliard. [12]
She assisted her step-father Georges Cuvier with his natural history researches and public talks. Sophie was the daughter of Louis Philippe Alexandre Du Vaucel, Marquis de Castelnau (1749-1794) and Anne Marie Sophie Coquet du Trazail (1764-1849). Her father collected taxes for the French king and was guillotined in 1794 during the French ...
He began to concentrate on the study of the natural science and traveled to France in 1825 with his wife. He began writing on the butterflies of Cuba and acquiring knowledge on fish, later supplying Georges Cuvier and Valenciennes with fish specimens from Cuba.
The Geoffroy-Cuvier debate in Paris before the Académie des Sciences (15 February 1830) saw Georges Cuvier demolish his claim that the four Cuvierian branches of the animal kingdom could be reduced to one. [11]
Achille Valenciennes (9 August 1794 – 13 April 1865) was a French zoologist. [1] [2]Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier.His study of parasitic worms in humans made an important contribution to the study of parasitology.
Alejandra Silva, 41, a Spanish socialite and activist, married the "Pretty Woman" actor in 2018, and six years later, the couple decide to relocate their family in Spain.
Histoire naturelle des poissons is a 22-volume treatment of ichthyology published in 1828–1849 by the French savant Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) and his student and successor Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865). It was a systematic compendium of the fishes of the world known at that time, and treated altogether 4 514 species of fishes, of ...