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Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Inédits de Lamarck. D'après les Manuscrits Conservés à la Bibliothèque Centrale du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Ed. by Max Vachon, Georges Rousseau, and Yyves Laissus. Preface by Georges Canguilhem. Postface by Pierre-P. Grassé. Paris: Masson1972. Pp. 312. 80 francs.

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1 The complete holdings are described by Vachon, Max, Rousseau, Georges, and Laissus, Yves, ‘Liste complète des manuscrits de Lamarck conservés à la Bibliothèque centrale du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle’, Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 2e série, xl (1969), 10931102.

2 Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, MS. 756–1. The manuscript bears the general title ‘Physique terrestre’, the name Lamarck gave to his projected (but never completed) work which was to include his meteorology, hydrogeology, and biology. This particular piece is eighteen pages long, plus a title page which reads (with the original spelling preserved): ‘Discours contenant une discution critique sur les theories physiques en general, sur celles maintenant etablies, sur les moyens pris pur les maintenir, enfin sur les difficultés, d'operer des rectifications dans les écarts on l'on s'est jette’.

3 Compare pp. 156–60 and 170–2 in Inédits de Lamarck with Olivier, G. A., ‘Mémoire sur l'utilité de l'étude des insectes, relativement à l'agriculture et aux arts’, Journal d'histoire naturelle, i (1792), 3356 (specifically 36–54). Lamarck at least mentioned Olivier in the second manuscipt (Inédits, p. 170), and he did cite Olivier's article in Lamarck, , Systéme des animaux sans vertèbres (Paris, 1801), p. 31.

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