Société cuvierienne
The Société cuvierienne is a zoological society founded in Paris in 1838 , named after the zoologist Georges Cuvier , who had died six years earlier . It published a magazine and existed until around 1848.
It published a monthly magazine Revue zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne , the first volume of which appeared in 1838 and the last volume in 1848 (the last issue was from December 1848). The editor was the entomologist and zoological illustrator Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville , who also continued Cuvier's zoological encyclopedia from 1829 as Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier and from 1831 an annual magazine Magasin de zoologie, d'anatomie comparée et de palaeontologie (which appeared until 1849). Guérin-Méneville also published a monthly zoological magazine from 1849, the Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée . But she had no connection to a Cuvier Society, which must have dissolved around 1848.
The society dealt according to its statutes apart from zoology with comparative anatomy and paleontology .
When they were founded, they had 140 members, including important French biologists. Members included Alexander von Humboldt and the explorer Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied , Lorenz Oken , Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg , Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim , William Buckland , Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny and Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny , Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte , the Duke of Orleans and the Kings Louis-Philippe I and Christian VIII. To be accepted you had to be introduced by a member and pay 18 francs a year.
Other Paris societies of this time that dealt with biology and published their own journals were (apart from the Academy of Sciences) various societies named after Carl von Linné such as the Société Linnéenne de Paris (1821 to 1835, as well as an older society 1787 to 1790, which then called itself Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris) and various in the provinces (such as the Linnaeus Society founded in Lyon in 1822, those in Normandy, northern France and Bordeaux), the Société entomologique de France founded in 1832 , the Société d ' histoire naturelle de Paris (since 1831 Société des sciences naturelles de France), the Société philomatique de Paris (founded in 1788 ), which is dedicated to general sciences and philosophy, and from the neighboring areas the Société anatomique and the Société geologique.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Revue et magasin de zoologie, Biodiversity Library . Volumes up to 1879 are listed there.
- ↑ Membership directory 1838
- ↑ Johannes Gistel, Lexikon der Entomologische Welt , Stuttgart: Schweitzerbart 1846, gives a list in the article Paris.