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ment of Lamarck's views. They had, however, hardly 

 reached the level of his Introduction to the second edition 

 of his "Animaux sans Vertebres" (1835). But we can 

 regard them as sure steps in that direction, for similar 

 ideas are here and there found in the Introduction. 

 Indeed the second part of these Questions Zoologiques, 

 MS. pp. 117-1 'Jn, undoubtedly served as a first draft of 

 this. Thus the present p. 117 is equivalent to p. 17 of the 

 Introduction, and one can identify nearly all of the 

 remaining leaves. 



The fifth portion is headed "Histoire naturelle," and 

 deals with its scope. It appears to have been a draft of 

 a portion of the second edition of the " Animaux sans Ver- 

 tebres," for it is captioned "Chap. 4. Connaissance des 

 Corps organises vivans que s'observent a la surface de 

 notre globe et dans les eau.r I iq aides," but these lines 

 have been crossed out. The same ideas occur in the pub- 

 lished work but in different form, so it is perhaps un- 

 necessary to append here the entire section. The last 

 page will give an idea of its tenor : 



