Cutty Stool
a low stool, the stool Arabian Sea. The country is subject to of repentance, a seat formerly set apart CUVIER in Presbyterian churches in Scotland, on which offenders against chastity were exhibited before the congregation and submitted to the minister's rebukes before they were readmitted to church privileges.
CUVIER, GEORGES CHRÉTIEN LEOPOLD DAGOBERT, BARON (küvē-ā'), one of the greatest naturalists the world has produced; born in Montbéliard, France, Aug. 23, 1769. After finishing his education at Stuttgart, he accepted the situation of tutor in a Protestant family in Normandy. The Abbé Texier, whom the troubles of the time had driven into exile from the capital, introduced him by letter to MM. Jussieu and Geoffroy. Several memoirs, written about this time, and transmitted to the latter, established his reputation and procured his admission to two or three of the learned societies in Paris. In 1800 he was appointed successor to Daubenton as Professor of Natural History at the College of France, and in 1802 he succeeded Mertrud in the chair of Comparative Anatomy at the Garden of Plants. From that time he devoted himself steadily to the studies which have immortalized his name. His "Lessons in Comparative Anatomy," and the "Animal Kingdom," in which the whole animal kingdom is arranged according to the organization of the beings of which it consists, have raised him to the pinnacle of scientific fame, and established him as perhaps the first naturalist in the world after Linnæus.
His numerous memoirs and works on these subjects show a master-mind in the study of zoölogy; and extending the principles laid down in his comparative anatomy to the study of paleontology, he has been enabled to render immense service to geology. His "Animal Kingdom" has been frequently translated, and forms the basis of all arrangements followed at the present time. Cuvier filled many offices of great importance in the State; particularly those connected with educational institutions. Napoleon treated him with much consideration; sideration; Louis XVIII. and Charles X. advanced him to honor; and Louis Philippe raised him to the rank of a peer of the realm.
He died in Paris, May 13, 1832.