The Lamarck manuscripts at Harvard / edited by William Morton Wheeler and Thomas Barbour.

  • Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
Date:
1933
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Credit: The Lamarck manuscripts at Harvard / edited by William Morton Wheeler and Thomas Barbour. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    marck in the Histoire refers to Lesueur’s Voyage, PI. 10, figs. 1-3. Blainville’s PI. 32, fig. 2 is ex¬ actly like the first of the line drawings on this Between Plates IX and X there is a leaf inserted to which the following items are pasted : (1) A note in a German hand with the following remark: Der wunderbarste unter den Seesternen ist [Lamarck’s?] Asterias echinites, p. 89 Supplement p. 90. Asterias orbicularis multiradiata, spinoso- echinata spinis basi tomentosis, subarticulatis, dorsa- libus validioribus, longioribus et acutioribus. La¬ marck Anim. sans Vertèbres. Tome 2 p. 559 No. 2\. Indische Ocean, tab. 60 Ellis Sol. Tab. 61. -f- 62-16 bis 20 Strahlen — superficies super muricata spino- sissima disco super convexo centre concavo. (2) A colored drawing of what seems to be a dead branched coral covered with a Millepora, labelled Lamarckia Olivi, Zoologia adriatica. Millepora gela- tinosa nov. sp. Fucus gelatinus Hudson, Alcyonidium articulatum, and signed D. Tilesius ad nat. pinxit. (3) A pressed specimen of Codium tomentosum “from Professor Maertens.” (4) Colored drawings of C. tomentosum, with a long Latin note in a German hand, preceded by a reference to Lamouroux, Histoire des Polypiers Coralligènes Flexibles, Kaen 1816, 319, 355, 350: Plate X. Three line drawings of a medusa merely designated as “eudore,” from Australia. It is also from Pérou and Lesueur. The species is un¬ identifiable.