That Library has not the _Recherches_ nor the _Memoires_, but the position of Lamarck is well known.

He had no influence on chemistry, and his name is not mentioned in the principal histories of chemistry.

He made no experiments, but depended upon his imagination for his facts; he opposed the tenets of the new French school founded by Lavoisier, and proposed a fanciful scheme of abstract principles that remind one of alchemy.
"Cuvier, in his _Eloge_ (_Memoires Acad.

Royale des Sciences_, 1832), estimates Lamarck correctly as respects his position in physical science." Lamarck boldly carried the principle of change and evolution into inorganic nature by the same law of change of circumstances producing change of species.
Under the head, "De l'espece parmi les mineraux," p.

149, the author states that he had for a long time supposed that there were no species among minerals.