Blainville, HENRI MARIE DUCROTAY DE, zoologist and anatomist, was born in 1778, near Dieppe, studied medicine and the physical sciences at Paris, and in 1812 was appointed assistant-professor of Comparative Zoology, Anatomy, and Physiology, in the university, as well as professor of Natural History at the Athænum; in 1825 a member of the Institute; and in 1832 successor of Cuvier in the chair of Comparative Anatomy in the Museum of Natural History. He died May 1,
1850. Blainville achieved great success, not only as a teacher, but as the author of Faune Française (1821-30), De l'Organisation des Animaux (1822), Cours de Physiologie Générale et Comparée (1833), Ostéographie (1839-64), &c.