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Hilaire , Isidore Geoffroy , Saint- , 1805-1861 , zoologist
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Born in Paris, 1805; appointed assistant naturalist to his father, 1824; taught zoology at the Athne, and teratology at the Ecole pratique, 1829-1831; elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, 1833; Faculty of Sciences in Paris, 1837; Faculty of Sciences in Bordeaux, 1838; Inspector of the Academy of Paris, 1840; Professor of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1841; Inspector-general of the University, 1844; member of the Royal Council for Public Instruction, 1845; Professor of Zoology at the Faculty of Sciences, 1850; founded the Acclimatization Society of Paris, of which he was President, 1854; died, 1861.