Education
On advice from Louis Pasteur, he studied sciences at the École Normale Supérieure, where he took classes in zoology from Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (1821-1901).
biologist naturalist Zoologist
On advice from Louis Pasteur, he studied sciences at the École Normale Supérieure, where he took classes in zoology from Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (1821-1901).
He is known for his studies of invertebrates (annelids and echinoderms). He was the brother of zoologist Rémy Perrier (1861-1936). Afterwards he was a schoolteacher for three years at the college in Agen.
In 1869 he obtained his doctorate in natural sciences, later replacing Lacaze-Duthiers at the École normale supérieure (1872).
In the early 1880s he participated in a series of sea expeditions, during which, he performed investigations of marine life located within the benthic zone, subsequently gaining international recognition as a specialist of marine fauna. From 1900 to 1919 he was director of the museum of natural history, where during the same time period (1903), he succeeded Henri Filhol (1843-1902) as chair of comparative anatomy.
Perrier was deeply interested in the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. In 1909 he was speaker at the inauguration of Lamarck"s monument at the Muséum national d"histoire naturelle.
Etudes sur l"organisation des Lombriciens terrestres, 1874--- Studies on the organization of terrestrial earthworms.
Louisiana Philosophie zoologique avant Darwin, 1884--- Zoological philosophy prior to Darwin
Les Coralliaires et les îles Madréporiques.., 1887—The Coralline islands and Madreporaria. Lamarck et le transformisme actuel, 1893
Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883 (1902). ---Scientific expeditions of the Travailleur and the Talisman
Louisiana Femme dans la nature, dans les moeurs dans la légende, dans la société, 1910
Louisiana Terre avant l"Histoire.
Les Origines de la Vie et de l"Homme, 1920.
French Academy of Sciences. Ligue de la Patrie Française. Société zoologique de France]
In 1892 he became a member of the Académie des sciences, and even though he wasn"t a doctor of medicine, he became a member of the Académie nationale de médecine (1898).