f Lamarck, but changed by Persoon and Poiret to
_Lamarckea_. The name _Lamarckia_ of Moench and Koeler was proposed for
a genus of grasses; it is now _Chrysurus_.

Lamarck's success as a botanist led to more or less intimate relations
with Buffon. But it appears that the good-will of this great naturalist
and courtier for the rising botanist was not wholly disinterested.
Lamarck owed the humble and poorly paid position of keeper of the
herbarium to Buffon. Bourguin adds, however:

"_Mais il les dut moins a ses merites qu'aux petits passions de la
science officielle._ The illustrious Buffon, who was at the same
time a very great lord at court, was jealous of Linne. He could not
endure having any one compare his brilliant and eloquent
word-pictures of animals with the cold and methodical descriptions
of the celebrated Swedish naturalist. So he attempted to combat him
in another field--botany. For this reason he encouraged and pushed
Lamarck into notice, who, as the popularizer of the system of
classification into natural families, seemed to him to oppose the
development of the arrangement of Linne."

Lamarck's style was never a highly finished one, and his incipient
essays seemed faulty to Buffon, who took so much pains to write all his
works in elegant and pure French. So he begged the Abbe Hauey to review
the literary form of Lamarck's works.

Here it might be said that Lamarck's is the philosophic style; often
animated, clear, and pure, it at times, however, becomes prolix and
tedious, owing to occasional repetition.

But after all it can easily be understood that the discipline of his
botanical studies, the friendship manifested for him by Buffon, then so
influential and popular, the relations Lamarck had with Jussieu, Hauey,
and the zooelogists of the Jardin du Roi, were all important factors in
Lamarck's success in life, a success not without terrible drawbacks, and
to the full fruition of which he did not in his own life attain.

CHAPTER XII

LAMARCK THE ZOOeLOGIST

Although there has been and still may be a difference of opinion as to
the value and permanency of Lamarck's theoretical views, there has never
been any lack of appreciation of his labors as a systematic zooelogist.
He was undoubtedly the greatest zooelogist of his time. Lamarck is the
one dominant personage who in the domain of zooelogy filled the interval
between Linne and Cuvier, and in acuteness and sound judgmen