[174] Cuvier, in 1812, Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Nat., xix.; von Baer in 1816, Nova Acta Acad. Nat. Cur. See Entwickelungsgeschichte der Thiere, i., p. vii., f.n.
[175] Compare a parallel passage in Prévost et Dumas:—"At the very first sight one will be struck with the resemblance between the forms of the very early embryos of these two classes, a resemblance so extraordinary that one cannot refuse to admit the conclusions resulting from it. The resemblance is so striking that one can defy the most experienced observer to distinguish in any way the embryos of dog or rabbit ... from those of fowls or ducks of a corresponding age."—Ann. Sci. nat., iii., p. 132, 1824.
[176] De l'organisation des Animaux, i., p. 140, 1822.
[177] "Ueber das äussere und innere Skelet," Meckel's Archiv für Anat. u. Physiol., pp. 327-76, 1826. See, too, his Entwickelungsgeschichte, i., pp. 181, ff.
[178] Von Baer wrote an appreciative biography of Cuvier, published posthumously in 1897, Lebensgeschichte Cuviers, ed. L. Stieda. French trans. in Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.), ix., 1907.
[179] Cuvier et Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des Poissons, i., p. 550.
[180] Mém. Mus. d'Hist. Nat., iii., pp. 98-119, 1817.
[181] Leçons d'Anatomie comparée, 3rd ed., vol. i., p. 414, Bruxelles, 1836.
[182] In the aforementioned paper in Müller's Archiv he criticises Carus vigorously and is sarcastic on Geoffroy.