1. J. M. Ziman, Public Knowledge: An Essay Concerning the Social Dimension of Science (Cambridge, 1968), p. 11.
2. The author is currently completing a doctoral dissertation at Harvard University on Lamarck's evolutionary theory and its reception.
3. See especially Fragments biographiques, précédés d'études sur la vie, les ouvrages et les doctrines de Buffon (Paris, 1838), pp. 81–82.
4. “Nécrologie; parallèle,” Annales des sciences d'observation, 3 (1830): 159–160. This article is not mentioned by Marcel Landrieu in Lamarck: le fondateur du transformisme (Paris, 1909), a biography which, if some-what lacking in critical analysis, is nevertheless generally an excellent source of information. Part of the article was reproduced but unidentified as to authorship by A. Giard in his preface to “Discours d'ouverture des cours de zoologie ... par J.-B. Lamarck,” Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique, 40 (1907): 449. Giard, citing the original source of the passage as Lycée, IV, 1829, takes the passage directly from F. Picavet, Les Idéologues (Paris, 1891), p. 599. Picavet seems also to have been unaware of the identity of the author of the article. On Raspail see Dora B. Weiner, Raspail: Scientist and Reformer (New York and London, 1968).
5. Four volumes of the Annales des sciences d'observation appeared: two in 1829 and two in 1830. On the Annales see Weiner, Raspail, p. 76. Weiner notes that Raspail was "excessively prone to feeling slighted by professors and academicians" (p. 74), but she does not indicate the extent to which the Annales served as an outlet for Raspail's and Saigey's feelings about certain aspects of contemporary French science. At one point, venting their distress over the "coteries" dominating French science, they wrote: "Oh! que cette science qui a tant de charmes aux yeux de la jeunesse et des amateurs devient affligeante quand on pénètre plus avant dans son sanctuaire! Vous qui la cultivez dans la retraite, croyez-nous, conservez bien toute la pureté de vos illusions