LAMARCK AS A BOTANIST 179 
classification into natural families, seemed to him 
to oppose the development of the arrangement of 
Linné.” 
Lamarck’s style was nevera highly finished one, and 
his incipient essays seemed faulty to Buffon, who took 
so much pains to write all his works in elegant and pure 
French. So he begged the Abbé Haiiy to review the 
literary form of Lamarck’s works. 
Here it might be said that Lamarck’s is the philo- 
sophic style; often animated, clear, and pure, it at 
times, however, becomes prolix and tedious, owing to 
occasional repetition. 
But after all it can easily be understood that the 
discipline of his botanical studies, the friendship 
manifested for him by Buffon, then so influential 
and popular, the relations Lamarck had with Jussieu, 
Haiiy, and the zodlogists of the Jardin du Roi, were 
all important factors in Lamarck’s success in life, a 
success not without terrible drawbacks, and to the 
full fruition of which he did not in his own life 
attain. 
