In France there were only two zooelogists of prominence when Lamarck assumed his duties at the Museum.

These were Bruguiere the conchologist and Olivier the entomologist.

In Germany Hermann was the leading systematic zooelogist.

We would not forget the labors of the great German anatomist and physiologist Blumenbach, who was also the founder of anthropology; nor the German anatomists Tiedemann, Bojanus, and Carus; nor the embryologist Doellinger.

But Lamarck's method and point of view were of a new order--he was much more than a mere systematist.