Edmond Perrier

See also: Perrier

Jean Octave Edmond Perrier is a zoologist French, born the May 9th 1844 with Tulle and dead the July 31st 1921 with Paris.

Wire of a principal, it makes its studies with Tulle then in Paris, with the Condorcet College|Bonaparte college. Receipt, in 1864, at the same time with the Polytechnic school and the National university, it is Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) which advises the second establishment to him. It follows in particular the courses of Zoologie of Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (1821-1901).

After having taught three years in a college with Agen, it obtains in 1868 a post of assistance-naturalist to the national Muséum of natural history thanks to Lacaze-Duthiers, which it replaces at the National university in 1872.

In 1876, it obtains the pulpit of natural history of the Mollusque S, the Ver S and the Zoophyte S with the Natural history museum. It takes part, of 1880 with 1885, with various forwardings intended to study benthic fauna.

In 1892, it is elected member of the Academy of Science. In 1900, it receives the direction of the Natural history museum, function which it keeps until in 1919. Into 1903, it changes pulpit and takes that of comparative anatomy, vacant by the death of Henri Filhol (1843-1902). He is also member of president of the National company of Acclimatization - current the National company of protection of nature - of 1901 with his death, in 1921. He chairs the zoological Société of France in 1879.

He studies mainly the echinodermatous S and the Annélide S Oligochète S. Défenseur of Charles Darwin (1809-1882) like Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829), it is interested in the theory of the evolution. He in addition publishes a biography of Lamarck, zoological Philosophy before Darwin . He is also famous for his treaty of zoology like for his fauna of France.

The Tulle college bears the name of Lycée Edmond Perrier.

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