FROM LAMARCK TO ST. HILAIRE 247 



TABLEAU DU RfiGNE ANIMAL (1809) 



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Serie des Animaux 

 Inarticules 



Serie des Animaux 

 Articules 



Infusoires. 

 Polypes. 



. Ascidiens. 



Radiaires. 



Vers. 



Acephales. 

 Mollusques. 



Epizoaires. 



Insectes. 



Annelides. 



Araclmides. 



Crustaces. 

 Cirrhipedes. 



Poissons. 

 Reptiles. 

 Oiseaux. 

 Mammiferes. 



In 1802 he expressly speaks' of the shaded gra- 

 dation in the complication of organization, not 

 as a lineal series of species, or even of genera, for 

 he says such a series does not exist. But he speaks 

 of "a series quite regularly gradated in its prin- 

 cipal masses; that is to say, in the principal 

 known systems of organization. Such a series in 

 this case certainly offers lateral ramifications in 



^Recherches sur VOrganisation des Corps vivans, 1802, p. 39. 



