Noun
French naturalist known as the father of comparative anatomy (1769-1832)
Source: WordNetAs Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. Arthur Conan Doyle
Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit. Richard Owen
Charles Alexandre Lesueur was a student of Cuvier. Source: Internet
Cuvier later admitted he had acted in haste and was mistaken. Source: Internet
Cuvier asked von Moll to study the fossil but was informed it could not be found. Source: Internet
In 1809 Cuvier published a somewhat longer description, in which he named the animal a "ptero-dactyle" and refuted a hypothesis by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach that it would have been a shore bird. Source: Internet