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A professor of natural history at Caen and a member of the Academie
des Sciences, Jean Vincent Felix Lamouroux (1779 1825) made
significant contributions to the field of marine biology. Following
the appearance in 1816 of his Histoire des polypiers corralligenes
flexibles, he published in 1821 the present work, drawing upon John
Ellis and Daniel Solander's seminal Natural History of Many Curious
and Uncommon Zoophytes (1786). It divides more than 130 genera
known at the time into twenty groupings. Taxonomy has progressed
considerably since Lamouroux's day, yet this work, complete with
eighty-four exquisitely drawn plates, serves to illuminate the
contemporary understanding and classification of some remarkable
marine organisms, principally those which take the form of polyps,
such as corals. Moreover, a copy of this work is known to have been
consulted by Charles Darwin aboard the Beagle on his famous voyage
of discovery the following decade."
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