Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville

Biography

Towards 1796, it settles with Paris to study the Peinture, but is directed soon towards the Natural history. He is noticed by Georges Cuvier, which he compensates for several occasions with the Collège de France. He obtains in 1808 his title of doctor of medicine with a thesis entitled Propositions extracted from a test on breathing, followed few experiments on the influence of the eighth pair of nerves in breathing . In 1812, it obtains thanks to Cuvier the pulpit of Anatomie and Zoologie of the Faculty of Science of Paris with a thesis entitled Dissertation on the place that the family of ornithorhynques and the echidnas must occupy in the natural series . But the two men hardly get along and end up hating themselves.

It second Jean-Claude Delamétherie (1743-1817) in the Newspaper of physics, chemistry, natural history and arts starting from 1813 before ensuring the direction of it, of July 1817 with 1823.

In 1825, Blainville is elected member of the Academy of Science. In 1830, it succeeds Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829) with the pulpit of natural history of the Muséum of Paris and, two years later, that of vacant comparative anatomy left by the death of Vat. He becomes foreign member of the Royal Society in 1832.

One found it dead with the Landing stage of Le Havre (current Gare Saint-Lazare), in the coach where it had taken seat to go to Caen. Marie Jean Pierre Flourens (1794-1867) pronounced his Éloge with the Academy of Science in 1854.

List partial of the publications

1822 : Of the Organization of the animals, or Principles of comparative anatomy (Paris: F. - G. Levrault).
1824 : Revision of the work of Johann Gottfried Bremser (1767-1827) Treated zoological and physiological on the intestinal worms of the man (Paris: C. - L. - F. Panckoucke).
1825 : Manual of malacology and conchology (Paris: F. - G. Levrault) - numerical edition on Gallica.
1827 : Manual of malacology and conchology, New additions and corrections with Generated (Paris: F. - G. Levrault).
1827 : Memory on the bélemnites, considered zoologiquement and geologically (Paris: F. - G. Levrault).
1833 : Course of physiology general and compared, professed with the Faculty of Science of Paris (three volumes, Paris: G. Baillière) - numerical edition on Gallica: volume one, volume two and volume three.
1834 : Manual of actinology or zoophytology (two volumes, Paris: F. - G. Levrault) - numerical edition on Gallica volume of text and volume of boards.
1839 : Osteography or compared iconographic Description of the skeleton and the dental system of the recent and fossil mammals… (four volumes, Paris: G. Baillière).
1842 : Report/ratio on the scientific results of the voyage of circumnavigation of ″ the Astrolabe ″ and ″ Dedicated the ″… Zoological part (Paris: impr. of Graduate).
1845): History of sciences: organization and their progress as base philosophy published by François Louis Michel Maupied (1814-1898) (three volumes, Paris: Perishes brothers).
1847 : On the principles of the zooclassy, or Classification of the animals (Paris) - textual version on Gallica.

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