CHER Nal 
POSITION IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE; OPINIONS 
OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND SOME LATER 
BIOLOGISTS 
DE BLAINVILLE, a worthy successor of Lamarck, 
in his posthumous book, Cuvier et Geoffroy Saint- 
ffilatre, pays the highest tribute to his predecessor, 
whose position as the leading naturalist of his time he 
fully and gratefully acknowledges, saying: ‘“ Among 
the men whose lectures I have had the advantage of 
hearing, I truly recognize only three masters, M. de 
Lamarck, M. Claude Richard, and M. Pinel” (p. 43). 
He also speaks of wishing to write the scientific 
biographies of Cuvier and De Lamarck, the two zo- 
ologists of this epoch whose lectures he most fre- 
quently attended and whose writings he studied, and 
“who have exercised the greatest influence on the 
zodlogy of our time” (p. 42). Likewise in the open- 
ing words of the preface he refers to the rank taken 
by Lamarck: 
“The aim which I have proposed to myself in my 
course on the principles of zodlogy demonstrated by 
the history of its progress from Aristotle to our time, 
and consequently the plan which I have followed 
to attain this aim, have very naturally led me, so 
to speak, in spite of myself, to signalize in M. de 
Lamarck the expression of one of those phases 
