. Biology and its makers. Biology. RISE OF EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT 421 formal, forcible, and scientific way that Erasmus Darwin did. The result is that the tentative views of Buffon, which have to be with much research extracted from the forty-four vol- umes of his works, would now be regarded as in a degree superficial and valueless. But they appeared thirty-four years before Lamarck's theory, and though not epoch-making,. Fig. 117.—Erasmus Darwin, 1731-1802. they are such as will render the name of Buffon memorable for all ; (Packard.) Erasmus Darwin (Fig. 117) was the greatest of Lam
. Biology and its makers. Biology. RISE OF EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT 421 formal, forcible, and scientific way that Erasmus Darwin did. The result is that the tentative views of Buffon, which have to be with much research extracted from the forty-four vol- umes of his works, would now be regarded as in a degree superficial and valueless. But they appeared thirty-four years before Lamarck's theory, and though not epoch-making,. Fig. 117.—Erasmus Darwin, 1731-1802. they are such as will render the name of Buffon memorable for all ; (Packard.) Erasmus Darwin (Fig. 117) was the greatest of Lamarck's predecessors. In 1794 he published the Zodnomia. In this work he stated ten principles; among them he vaguely suggested the transmission of acquired characteristics, the law of sexual selection—or the law of battle, as he called it—. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Locy, William A. (William Albert), 1857-1924. New York, H. Holt and company
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