Best known for his ideas relating to evolution, French naturalist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) first built his reputation as a
botanist and was elected to the prestigious Academie des Sciences
in 1779. His career took a new turn in 1793 when he was made
professor of 'insects, worms and microscopic animals' at the Museum
National d'Histoire Naturelle, although he lacked prior knowledge
of the subject area. Undaunted, Lamarck set out to classify
organisms which few naturalists had considered worthy of study
since Linnaeus. He was the first to distinguish vertebrates from
'invertebrates' - a term he coined - by the presence of a vertebral
column. In this groundbreaking seven-volume work, published between
1815 and 1822, he arranges invertebrates into twelve classes,
laying the foundations for the modern study of these organisms.
Volume 6, published in two parts between 1819 and 1822 (reissued
here together), continues with the study of conchifera and covers
molluscs.
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