He was the younger brother of zoologist Edmond Perrier (1844-1921) who directed the French National Museum of Natural History from 1900 to 1919 and founded the Friends of the Natural History Museum society in 1907.
[1] Rémy Perrier studied natural sciences at the École normale supérieure, afterwards teaching classes in Poitiers.
He was a member of the Société des lettres, sciences et arts de la Corrèze.
[3] He is also remembered for his study of sea cucumbers, being credited with creation of the taxonomic genus Gastrothuria.
[4] Beginning in 1923, Perrier released "La Faune de la France en tableaux synoptiques illustrés", a work on zoology published in ten installments by Librairie Delagrave.