Cuvier summarized all of the available information in his monumental Histoire Naturelle des Poissons .
Close to the dawn of the nineteenth century , Marcus Elieser Bloch of Berlin and Georges Cuvier of Paris made attempts to consolidate the knowledge of ichthyology .
Georges Cuvier summarized all of the available information in Georges Cuvier 's monumental Histoire Naturelle des Poissons .
Close to the dawn of the nineteenth century , Marcus Elieser Bloch of Berlin and Georges Cuvier of Paris made attempts to consolidate the knowledge of ichthyology .