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Société Cuvierienne

Société Cuvierienne is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Société Cuvierienne rather than just read about it. In short: The Société Cuvierienne was a zoological society founded in Paris in 1838, named after the zoologist Georges Cuvier, who had died six years earlier It existed until about 1848 the year of the February Revolution. The society published the monthly journal 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).

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Reference excerpt

The Société Cuvierienne was a zoological society founded in Paris in 1838, named after the zoologist Georges Cuvier, who had died six years earlier It existed until about 1848 the year of the February Revolution. The society published the monthly journal 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 continued Cuvier's zoological encyclopedia from 1829 as Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, and also published the annual journal Magasin de zoologie, d'anatomie comparée et de palaeontologie from 1831 (which appeared until 1849). Guérin-Méneville also published the monthly zoological journal Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée from 1849. However, it had no connection to the Cuvier Society, which had been dissolved shortly before. According to its statutes, the society dealt not only with zoology, but also with comparative anatomy and paleontology. When it was founded, the Société Cuvierienne 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 admitted, you had to be introduced by a member and pay 18 francs per year. Other Parisian societies of this period that dealt with biology and published their own journals were (in addition to the Academy of Sciences) various societies named after Carl von Linnaeus, such as the Société Linnéenne de Paris (1821 to 1835, as well as an older society from 1787 to 1790 called the Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris) and various societies 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 was generally devoted to science and philosophy, and the Société anatomique and the Société géologique.

References Revue et magasin de zoologie, Biodiversity Library. Volumes up to 1879 are listed there. List of members 1838 Johannes Gistel, Lexikon der entomologische Welt, Stuttgart: Schweizerbart 1846, gives a list in the article Paris.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Société Cuvierienne

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Société Cuvierienne claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Société Cuvierienne before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Société Cuvierienne ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Société Cuvierienne

In research: Société Cuvierienne appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Société Cuvierienne in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Société Cuvierienne is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Zoological societies, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Société Cuvierienne outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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