Savigny, Jules-Cesar; Cuvier, Georges [caveat: the actual author is Cuvier, not Savigny]. (1826). Analyse des travaux de l'Académie royale des Sciences pendant l'année 1821, partie physique [Zoology from p. 172]. Mémoires de l'Académie (royale) des sciences de l'Institut (imperial) de France. 5: 153-203, with the Cuvier summary of Savigny's unpublished lumbricid memoir from p.176-184.

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Savigny, Jules-Cesar; Cuvier, Georges <b>[caveat: the actual author is Cuvier, not Savigny]</b>

1826

5: 153-203, with the Cuvier summary of Savigny's unpublished lumbricid memoir from p.176-184

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https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16376288

Suggested authorship is as "Savigny in Cuvier (1826)". Important note. The review by Cuvier of biology work in the annual Académie des sciences report for 1821 includes inter alia a precis of an unpublished (never published) manuscript by Savigny on new species of earthworm from Paris. Savigny's name is given first here so that the record will be found by those seeking a work by Savigny in 1826, but correctly the author is solely Cuvier. Sometimes misleadingly known by invented titles not in the work (it has no titles) such as Savigny (1826) "Analyse d'un memoire sur les Lombrics par Cuvier", or "La multiplicite des especes de ver de terre" (seen in 'Biology of earthworms' by Karaca), but the author is Cuvier, and the unpublished manuscript of a memoir is Savigny's. See the articles by Tetry (1931) for further analysis. Tetry reports that the surviving Savigny earthworm manuscript differs considerably. She writes (translated) "sheets 298 and 371 of volume 7 of the Savigny manuscripts [in Bibliothèque du Paris Muséum] have as their object "observations on earthworms with descriptions of species in Gally park". This manuscript is in perfect condition, and its reading is very easy. Compared with Cuvier's analysis, this work does not appear to be the definitive manuscript presented by Savigny to the Académie des Sciences, and this for many reasons. The description of certain species is barely sketched; the choice of the name of the species does not seem final"

SavignyCuvier1826_PrecisOfSavignyOligochaetaMSbyCuvier.pdf 

None. Cuvier begins his summary about Savigny on p. 176 thus (translated): "But one of the most surprising discoveries that have been made in zoology is that of the multiplicity of earthworm species, observed by Mr. Savigny. Who would have thought that animals so well known, that we trample on feet every day, and whose differences we had never suspected, offered such, however, only by limiting themselves to those around Paris, we could count up to twenty-two species? However, this multiplicity is today certain, according to the author; and since these species are all found in our gardens, and most of them are common there, ... Cuvier ends by writing: "This is the analysis of the work of M. Savigny, which we have believed to have to given with some extent because of interest that a series of such unexpected events cannot be missed to inspire all naturalists. It is important to remember each day how little we are little advanced in the study treasures of nature, and there were certainly never any more striking proof than this."
[ The species names briefly diagnosed by Cuvier (1826) in his precis of Savigny are: Enterion terrestre, Enterion caliginosum, Enterion carneum, Enterion festivum, Enterion herculeum, Enterion tyrtaeum, Enterion castaneumm Enterion mammale, Enterion cyaneum, Enterion roseum, Enterion fetidum, Enterion rubidum, Enterion chloroticum, Enterion virescens, Enterion ictericum, Enterion opimum, Enterion octaedruni, Enterion pygmaeum, Enterion tetraedrum. It is not made clear which are new taxa. Possibly Cuvier did not know. However, at least E. terrestre and E. fetidum had been described earlier (Savigny, 1822)].

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