Browse Entries

Use Trove to find more resources by/about this Biographical entry

  • Trove

Biographical entry Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine (1744 - 1829)

Born
1 August 1744
France
Died
18 December 1829
Occupation
Naturalist and Botanist

Summary

Jean Baptiste P. A. Lamark was appointed botanist to the French king in 1781 and from 1793 was professor of invertebrate zoology at the Museum of Natural History, Paris. He devised one of the earliest hypotheses explaining the evolutionary development of life.

Skip to

Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine Lamarck - Records, 1820, P2/L; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Published resources

Online Resources

  • National Library of Australia, 'Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1464742. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 16 September 2004