Blainville, Henri Marie, a French naturalist; devoted himself to medicine; became assistant to Cuvier; succeeded him as professor of Comparative Anatomy; wrote largely on natural science, and particularly on subjects connected with his appointment as a professor (1777‒1850).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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