Note 33 — PERIOD IV
Reading edition
Cuvier did not himself use the word palæontology, which first came in about 1830. In the same way Buffon writes on the history of animals, not on zoology, and on the theory of the earth, not on geology.
Reading edition
Cuvier did not himself use the word palæontology, which first came in about 1830. In the same way Buffon writes on the history of animals, not on zoology, and on the theory of the earth, not on geology.