Sublime

Et les bactéries d'Edmond ? – Lui-même déclarait qu'il ne faisait qu'étudier ses ancêtres. Disons qu'il remontait un peu plus haut que la normale dans son arbre généalogique…

This is a rare moment when the females and not the males are named in the lineage.

He was coauthor of a textbook, Principles of Zoology, his first American work, which went through sixteen editions

I have not as yet mentioned a circumstance which influenced my whole career more than any other. This was my friendship with Professor Henslow. Before coming up to Cambridge, I had heard of him from my brother as a man who knew every branch of science, and I was accordingly prepared to reverence him. He kept open house once every week when all

In Paris later, at the Museum of Natural History (the Jardin des Plantes), with the blessing and counsel of the great Georges Cuvier, he undertook his vast, illustrated Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles, at a time when fewer than a dozen generic types of fossil fish had been named and he was all of twenty-four.