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| | JULIEN LOUIS GEOFFROY - LoveToKnow Article on JULIEN LOUIS GEOFFROY |
 | | GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, ETIENNE (1772-1844), French naturalist, was the son of Jean Gerard Geoffroy, procurator and magistrate of Etampes, Seine-et-Oise, where he was born on the 15th of April 1772. |
 | | See Vie, travaux, ci doctrine scientifique dEtienne Geoff roy Saint Hilaire, par, son fits M. Isidore Geoff roy Saint-Hilaire (Paris ant Strasburg, 1847), to which is appended a list of Geoffroys works and Joly, in Biog. |
 | | Geoffroy, a synthesist, contended, in accordance with his theory of unity of plan in organic composition, that all animals are formed of the same elements, in the same number; and with the same connections: homologous parts, however they differ in form and size, must remain associated in the same invariable order. |
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