Lamarck's “Systême des Animaux sans Vertèbres”

Abstract

THIS work, as is well known, was first published in the ninth year of the Republic, or 1801 A.D. (i.e. the last nine months thereof). But, to judge from the usual bibliographies and library catalogues, it does not appear to be generally known that the original sheets were re-issued with a fresh title-page in the following year. The differences between the two title-pages are quite unimportant until the imprint is reached. This in the first issue reads as follows:—