LAMARCK, THEY FounNDER oF 
EvouvuTion. His Lire anp Work 
CHEW? ibe ot 
BIRTH, FAMILY, YOUTH, AND MILITARY CAREER 
THE life of Lamarck is the old, old story of a man 
of genius who lived far in advance of his age, and 
who died comparatively unappreciated and neglected. 
But his original and philosophic views, based as they 
were on broad conceptions of nature, and touching 
on the burning questions of our day, have, after the 
lapse of a hundred years, gained fresh interest and 
appreciation, and give promise of permanent accept- 
ance. 
The author of the /lore Francaise will never be for- 
gotten by his countrymen, who called him the French 
Linné; and he who wrote the Anizmaux sans Verte- 
bres at once took the highest rank as the leading 
zodlogist of his period. But Lamarck was more than 
a systematic biologist of the first order. Besides 
rare experience and judgment in the classification of 
plants and of animals, he had an unusually active, 
inquiring, and philosophical mind, with an originality 
