CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. Birth, Family, Youth, and Military Career . i 

 II. Student Life and Botanical Career . . .15 



III. Lamarck's Share in the Reorganization of the 



Jardin des Plantes and Museum of Natural 

 History 23 



IV. Professor of Invertebrate Zoology at the 



Museum 32 



V. Last Days and Death 51 



VI. Position in the History of Science ; Opinions 

 OF HIS Contemporaries and Some Later 



Biologists . . 64 



VII. Lamarck's Work in Meteorology and Physical 



Science 79 



VIII. Lamarck's Work in Geology . . . .89 

 IX. Lamarck the Founder of Invertebrate Pale- 

 ontology 124 



X. Lamarck's Opinions on General Physiology and 



Biology 156 



XL Lamarck as a BoTANisr 173 



XII. Lamarck the Zoologist 180 



XIII. The Evolutionary Views of Buffon and ofC 

 Geoffroy St. Hilaire 198 



