Bold ink signatures, "Lamarck” and "G. Cuvier," on an off-white 7 x 9.25 sign-in page, headed, "Signatures des Membres Presens," and dated "23 floreal an 9" [May 13, 1801]. Also signed by several other French scientists. In fine condition. Lamarck was an influential French naturalist and biologist (1744-1829) known as an early proponent of the concept of evolution and his mistaken theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Cuvier was a French naturalist and zoologist (1769-1832) instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology.
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