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Lamarck's career as a botanist comprised about twenty-five years. We now come to the third stage of his life--Lamarck the zoölogist andevolutionist. He was in his fiftieth year when he assumed the duties of his professorship of the zoölogy of the invertebrate animals; and at aperiod when many men desire rest and freedom from responsibility, with the vigor of an intellectual giant Lamarck took upon his shoulders newlabors in an untrodden field both in pure science and philosophic thought.