3104 ([return])
[ Buffon, "Théorie de la terre," 1749; "Epoques de la Nature," 1788.—"Carte géologique de l'Auvergne," by Desmarets, 1766.]
3105 ([return])
[ See a lecture by M. Lacaze-Duthier on Lamarck, "Revue Scientifique," III. 276-311.]
3106 ([return])
[ Buffon, "Histoire Naturelle, II. 340: "All living beings contain a vast quantity of living and active molecules. Vegetal and animal life seem to be only the result of the actions of all the small lives peculiar to each of the active molecules whose life is primitive." Cf. Diderot, "Revue d'Alembert.">[
3108 ([return])
[ "Philosophie de Newton," 1738, and "Physique," by Voltaire.—Cf. du Bois-Raymond, "Voltaire physician," (Revue des Cours Scientifique, V. 539), and Saigey, "la Physique de Voltaire,"—"Had Voltaire," writes Lord Brougham, "continued to devote himself to experimental physics he would undoubtedly have inscribed his name among those of the greatest discoverers of his age.">[
3109 ([return])
[ See his "Langue des Calculs," and his "Art de Raisonner.">[