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Title: Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution
His Life and Work

Author: Alpheus Spring Packard

Release Date: February 10, 2007 [EBook #20556]

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LAMARCK

[Illustration: Attempt at a reconstruction of the Profile of Lamarck
from an unpublished etching by Dr. Cachet]

LAMARCK

THE FOUNDER OF EVOLUTION

_HIS LIFE AND WORK_

WITH TRANSLATIONS OF HIS
WRITINGS ON ORGANIC EVOLUTION

By
ALPHEUS S. PACKARD, M.D., LL.D.

Professor of Zooelogy and Geology in Brown University; author of "Guide
to the Study of Insects," "Text-book of Entomology," etc., etc.

"La posterite vous honorera!"
--_Mlle. Cornelie de Lamarck_

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PREFACE

Although it is now a century since Lamarck published the germs of his
theory, it is perhaps only within the past fifty years that the
scientific world and the general public have become familiar with the
name of Lamarck and of Lamarckism.

The rise and rehabilitation of the Lamarckian theory of organic
evolution, so that it has become a rival of Darwinism; the prevalence of
these views in the U