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JEAN LOUIS ARMAND DE, a French naturalist; born in Berthezème, France, Feb. 10, 1810; studied medicine at Strassburg, and in 1838 was appointed Professor of Zoölogy at Toulouse. But this post he soon resigned and went to Paris. In 1850 he was elected Professor of Natural History in the "Lycée Napoléon," and in 1855 of Anatomy and Ethnology at the Natural History Museum in Paris. He devoted his attention principally to anthropology and the lower animals. His chief works are: "The Human Species" a (1877) ; "Memoirs of a Naturalist" (1854); "Unity of the Human Species" (1861); "The Prussian Race" (1879); "The Pygmies" (1887); "Darwin and His French Forerunners" (1892); and "Transformist Theories" (1892). He died Jan. 13, 1892. See ANTHROPOLOGY. a