CHAPRERVXII 
LAMARCK THE ZOOLOGIST 
ALTHOUGH there has been and still may be a 
difference of opinion as to the value and permanency 
of Lamarck’s theoretical views, there has never been 
any lack of appreciation of his labors as a systematic 
zoblogist. He was undoubtedly the greatest zodlo- 
gist of his time. Lamarck is the one dominant per- 
sonage who in the domain of zodlogy filled the inter- 
val between Linné and Cuvier, and in acuteness and 
sound judgment he at times surpassed Cuvier. His 
was the master mind of the period of systematic 
zodlogy, which began with Linné—the period which, 
in the history of zodlogy, preceded that of compara- 
tive anatomy and morphology. 
After Aristotle, no epoch-making zodélogist arose 
until Linné was born. In England Linné was pre- 
ceded by Ray, but binomial nomenclature and the 
first genuine attempt at the classification of animals 
dates back to the Systema Nature of Linné, the 
tenth edition of which appeared in 1758. 
The contemporaries of Lamarck in_ biological 
science, in the eighteenth century, were Camper 
(1722-89), Spallanzani (1729-99), Wolff (1733-94), 
Hunter (1728-93), Bichat (1771-1802), and Vicq 
d’Azyr (1748-94). These were all anatomists and 
