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FROM LAMARCK TO ST. HILAIRE, 



natural series has recently been denied, and that 

 some have substituted for a gradated series a re- 

 ticulated series, in which animals and plants are 

 spread out as upon a map. Such a reticulated 

 series has seemed sublime to some modern writers, 

 and Hermann has attempted to add probability 

 to it. But those who study more profoundly the 

 organization of living bodies, and occupy them- 

 selves less exclusively with the consideration of 

 species, will see that this view will have to be 



entirely abandoned." 



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TABLEAU DU REGNE ANIMAL (1809). 



This later conception of Lamarck's of the tree of 

 life as branching, not as radiating from a single 



