[165] This he already touched upon in his Mémoires de Physique et d’Histoire naturelle (p. 342).
[166] Système des Animaux sans Vertèbres, pp. 16 and 17.
[167] I have cited the incontestable proofs in my Hydrogéologie, and I have the conviction that one day all will be compelled to accept these great truths.
[168] Ranunculus aquaticus capillaceus (Tournef., p. 291).
[169] Ranunculus aquaticus (folio rotundo et capillaceo, Tournef., p. 291).
[170] Gramen junceum, etc. (Moris, hist. 3, sec. 8, t. 9, f. 4).
[171] Discours d’ouverture d’un Cours de Zoologie, prononcé en prairial, an XI, au Muséum d’Histoire naturelle, sur la question, Qu’est-ce que l’espèce parmi les corps vivans? (1803).
[172] Recherches sur l’Organisation des Corps vivans, p. 9.
[173] “See at the end of this discourse the sketch of a Philosophie zoologique relative to this subject.” [This sketch was not added—only the title at the end of the book.]
[174] See the Annales du Muséum d’Hist. nat., IVe cahier. 1., 1802, pp. 302, 303: Mémoires sur les Fossiles des Environs de Paris, etc. He repeats in his Discours what he wrote in 1802 in the Annales.