136 LAMARCK, HIS LIFE AND WORK 



invertebrate paleontology, and, singularly enough, not 

 a word of Lamarck's principles and of his papers and 

 works on fossil shells — a rather strange oversight, 

 because he was a friend and admirer of Lamarck, and 

 succeeded him in one of the two departments of in- 

 vertebrates created at the Museum d'Histoire Natu- 

 relle after Lamarck's death. 



Blainville, who by the way was the first to propose 

 the word palceontology, shows that the study of the 

 great extinct mammals had for forty years been held 

 in great esteem in Germany, before Faujas and Cu- 

 vier took up the subject in France. Two Frenchmen, 

 also before 1789, had examined mammalian bones. 

 Thus Bernard de Jussieu knew of the existence in a 

 fossil state of the teeth of the hippopotamus. Guet- 

 tard * published in 1760 a memoir on the fossil bones 

 of Aix en Provence. Lamanon (1780-1783) f in a 

 beautiful memoir described a head, almost entire, 

 found in the gypsum beds of Paris. Daubenton had 

 also slightly anticipated Cuvier's law of correlation, 

 giving " a very remarkable example of the mode of 

 procedure to follow in order to solve these kinds of 

 questions by the way in which he had recognized a 

 bone of a giraffe whose skeleton he did not possess " 

 (De Blainville). 



* " Memoire sur des os fossiles decouverts aupres de la ville d'Aix 

 en Provence" (Mem. Acad. Sc, Paris, 1760, pp. 209-220). 



f " Sur un osd'une grosseur enorme qu'on a trouve dans une couche 

 de glaise au milieu de Paris ; et en general sur les ossemens fossiles 

 qui ont appartenu a de grands animaux " (Journal de Physique, tome 

 xvii, 1781, pp. 393-405). Lamanon also, in 17S0, published in the 

 same Journal an article on the nature and position of the bones found 

 at Aix en Provence ; and in 1783 another article on the fossil bones 

 belonging to gigantic animals. 



