No. 495] LAMARCK MANUSCRIPT IN HARVARD 153 



"Living bodies and inorganic bodies are the materials 

 of natural history. They compose together the mass of 

 the terrestrial globe, but they occur in very different 

 proportions, for the first form a portion exceedingly 

 small, while the second constitute almost the totality. 



"Yet the bodies which are possessed of life are innu- 

 merable in the diversity of their species, and those, on the 

 other hand, which lack it, exhibit in proportion only a 

 small number. Indeed, we know hardly more than six 

 or seven hundred species of minerals, while the number of 

 species of living bodies can not be estimated as Less than 

 100,000. 2 



"These considerations are not lacking in interest, pro- 

 voking our reflections, and each one of them presents us 

 a fact, an item of knowledge with which we have to reckon. 

 In a word these singular bodies which possess life, which 

 are so diversified, are yet the constituents of but a very 

 small portion of the globe which man inhabits." 



The final pages of the manuscript contain the following 

 drawings : 



Plate I, monads, volvoce, enchelide, protee, vibrion, 

 goue, cyclida. 



Plate II, paramece, kolpode, Bursaire, tricode [leueo- 



phre], Kerone, cercaire, furcoeercpie. 

 Plate III, Ratule, tricocerque, vaginicole, folliculina, 



Brachion, furculaire. 

 Plate IV, urceolaire, vorticelle, tubiculaire. 



The remaining pages include the "animal of lepas 

 balanus," with parts named, "millipora gelatinosa," a 

 color sketch, a number of jelly fishes, including "dianee 

 triedre," "orythie verte," "orthie hexaneme," "dianee 

 proboscidale," "dianee dineme"; a number of nudi- 

 branchs, pteropods, and a beautifully colored drawing of 

 a living holothurian. 



