This life is offered with much diffidence, though the pleasure of collecting the materials and of putting them together has been very great.

Brown University, Providence, R. I.,
October, 1901.

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
[I]Birth, Family, Youth, and Military Career[1]
[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 Zoölogy 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 Palæontology[124]
[X]Lamarck’s Opinions on General Physiology and Biology[156]
[XI]Lamarck as a Botanist[173]
[XII]Lamarck the Zoölogist[180]
[XIII]The Evolutionary Views of Buffon and of Geoffroy St. Hilaire[198]
[XIV]The Views of Erasmus Darwin[216]
[XV]When did Lamarck change his Views regarding the Mutability of Species?[226]
[XVI]The Steps in the Development of Lamarck’s Views on Evolution before the Publication of his “Philosophie zoologique”[232]
[XVII]The “Philosophie zoologique”[279]
[XVIII]Lamarck’s Theory as to the Evolution of Man[357]
[XIX]Lamarck’s Thoughts on Morals, and on the Relation between Science and Religion[372]
[XX]The Relations between Lamarckism and Darwinism; Neolamarckism[382]
Bibliography[425]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[Attempt at a Reconstruction of the Profile of Lamarck by Dr. Gachet (Photogravure)][Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
[Birthplace of Lamarck, Front View] } [4]
[Birthplace of Lamarck ""]
[Act of Birth][6]
[Autograph of Lamarck, January 25, 1802][10]
[Lamarck at the Age of 35 Years][20]
[Birthplace of Lamarck. Rear View from the West] } [42]
[Maison de Buffon, in which Lamarck lived in Paris, 1793–1829]
[Portrait of Lamarck, when Old and Blind, in the Costume of a Member of the Institute. Engraved in 1824][54]
[Portrait of Lamarck][180]
[Maison de Buffon, in which Lamarck lived, 1793–1829][198]
[É. Geoffroy St. Hilaire][212]

Lamarck, the Founder of
Evolution. His Life and Work