RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Lamarck, 1830. Philosophie zoologique. CUL-DAR.LIB.346. (Cite as: John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2026. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. Some of this was not transcribed in Marginalia where Darwin's annotations on the book itself are transcribed.
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de. 1830. Philosophie zoologique. 2 vols. vol. 1 only. Paris: Duminil-Leseur. [cover is that of 1830 ed.] CUL-DAR.LIB.346 PDF part of Darwin's library.
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British Association for the Advancement of Science.
(Founded 1831. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1928.)
Compared with a copy of the 1st Edition (1809)
De L'influence de Duminil-Lesueur.
Rue de la Harpe. No. 78.
Chez { Deatn. –
L-Austeur
Text & paper from Avertissement & title is identical to 1st edition.
Cover & title page alone are new: for 1830 issue.
Sydney Smith
Dec 2nd 1959.
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44. It is odd that in animals organs for conservation of life important, in plants organs of reproduction — But a flower is
more than organ.
58. good remark how arbitrary the distinction race & species is.
62 alludes to conditions.
(In Preface ask whether from earliest day age there can have been revolution of climate corresponding to the many changes in organisms on earths face.)
Very poor & useless Book
(372)
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p 261 on effects of intermarriage in preventing multiplication of species
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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