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Philosophie zoologique
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Paris, Duminil-Lesueur, 1830 (1830 re-issue of the 1809 edition)
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line 9 annotation Why ? ⧟
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bottom-margin annotation Fallacy common to Swainson & Macleay


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bottom-margin annotation In this Chapter argues that all divisions «or gaps» are artificial & that the series is either now perfect or has been so —
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from End Slip annotation 44    It is odd that in animals organs for conservation of life important , in plants organs of reproduction — But a flower is more than organ.


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bottom-margin annotation Is there any marked difference between races produced in same or different countries, with respect to propagation ?
from End Slip annotation 62    alludes to conditions.
     [In Preface ask whether from earliest ‹day› «age» there can have been revolution of climate corresponding t th mny changes in organisms on earths face.]


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bottom-margin annotation ⧟ Like Lyell in Geology
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lines 1—26 annotation in pale pencil The similarity of type on old Continents & in oldest seas .— does it point to first Creation ??
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bottom-margin annotation / Lamarck argues, species of shells, not killed by man, no apparent cause of death ; but causes of change are present ∴ therfor fossil same species with modern.—


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bottom-margin annotation Geologists judge of time by change of species, these changes effect of physical changes (dynamical changes). these we can only judge of by present day — Therefore measure of past ages is reduced to observation of changes at present day .—


bottom-margin annotation Therfor every fossil species direct father of existing analogues & no extinction except through man!— [Hence cause of innumerable errors in Lamarck]


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bottom-margin annotation / On Species— argues against permanence, when conditions changing — series branching, now or once perfect.— no genera — conditions change species, & these changes by time become fixed — «assumes» some near species made by (p. 64) by hybridity & fixed by time — wants produce habitudes th source of actions, faculties & instincts — argues against Egypt case & asks what is 2000 to 3000 years? — / definition of species 75 /— doubts any extinct animals ! (hence theory must be false XX
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bottom-margin annotation nearly all compound animals being fixed, analogy with vegetables ,— caused probably by ‹non› imperfect transmission of will preventing voluntary & coinstantaneous movements.


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bottom-margin annotation Speculations .


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     p. 105. few animals at the limits of classes — animals in series & not ramified? «& p. 109» (quite different from my view) — organs vary in developement. & not in. same ratio, as th developement of th class to which it belongs

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     p. 105. few animals at the limits of classes — animals in series & not ramified? «& p. 109» (quite different from my view) — organs vary in developement. & not in. same ratio, as th developement of th class to which it belongs


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     p. 105. few animals at the limits of classes — animals in series & not ramified? «& p. 109» (quite different from my view) — organs vary in developement. & not in. same ratio, as th developement of th class to which it belongs


bottom-margin annotation — Classification —
     p. 105. few animals at the limits of classes — animals in series & not ramified? «& p. 109» (quite different from my view) — organs vary in developement. & not in. same ratio, as th developement of th class to which it belongs


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bottom-margin annotation The « economy of» t01 world could have gone on without Bats or Ostriches.— It can only be following out some great principle
     It is clear Birds made preeminent for air. yet if no birds: Mammalia would hav tak place [continues on page 149] ---- There limit to this Adaptation. Fish could hardly have lived out of water. Though Crabs — Spiders under water.—
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top-marginline 6 annotation This is rather false : Simply to differ from highst animal, does not prove degradation . Who can doubt superiority of some organs & therfor senses in low animals /

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bottom-margin annotation ⧟ On this scheme of organization «lower down» it would not be expected to find ‹organs› smell more perfect . But in others as articulates it is much more perfect


bottom-margin annotation in brown ink This chapter must be looked over again: L. distinguishes between degraded or abortive organs, such as extremities of Cetacea &c & less developed forms — : discussion on this point fills much of this chapt.

bottom-margin annotation The want of progression in the vegetable world serious fact Lamarck has rather overlooked . — Though no doubt vegetable world should rather be considered as one family (not so large as insects) in the scheme of organic beings.
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     On effects of intermarriage in preventing multiplication of species /


bottom-margin annotation Explains how animals & plants change — Lamarck'st01 theory differs for plants & animals — It is absurd the way , he assumes th want of habit cause annihilation of organ and vice versâ —
     ||t02 Explains how crossing presents innumerable varieties of man — & supposes if no distance between men, there would not be many races of man — does not extend this view
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bottom-margin annotation Endosmos & Exosmos purely Physical action


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