136 LAMARCK, HIS LIFE AND WORK 
invertebrate palzontology, and, singularly enough, not 
a word of Lamarck’s principles and of his papers and 
works on fossil shells—a rather strange oversight, 
because he was a friend and admirer of Lamarck, and 
succeeded him in one of the two departments of in- 
vertebrates created at the Museum d’Histoire Natu- 
relle after Lamarck’s death. 
Blainville, who by the way was the first to propose 
the word paleontology, shows that the study of the 
great extinct mammals had for forty years been held 
in great esteem in Germany, before Faujas and Cu- 
vier took up the subject in France. Two Frenchmen, 
also before 1789, had examined mammalian bones. 
Thus Bernard de Jussieu knew of the existence ina 
fossil state of the teeth of the hippopotamus. Guet- 
tard * published in 1760 a memoir on the fossil bones 
of Aix en Provence. Lamanon (1780-1783) + in a 
beautiful memoir described a head, almost entire, 
found in the gypsum beds of Paris. Daubenton had 
also slightly anticipated Cuvier’s law of correlation, 
giving ‘“‘a very remarkable example of the mode of 
procedure to follow in order to solve these kinds of 
questions by the way in which he had recognized a 
bone of a giraffe whose skeleton he did not possess”’ 
(De Blainville). 
* “* Mémoire sur des os fossiles découverts auprés de la ville d’Aix 
en Provence” (Mém. Acad. Sc., Paris, 1760, pp. 209-220). 
+ ‘‘ Sur un os d’une grosseur €énorme qu’on a trouvé dans une couche 
de glaise au milieu de Paris; et en général sur les ossemens fossiles 
qui ont appartenu a de grands animaux” ( Yournal de Physique, tome 
xvii, 1781, pp. 393-405). Lamanon also, in 1780, published in the 
same Journal an article on the nature and position of the bones found 
at Aixen Provence; and in 1783 another article on the fossil bones 
belonging to gigantic animals. 
