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Biology 3310 - Spring 2007 Dr. Dirnberger "Indeed, invertebrate zoology was not a term that then existed (since Lamarck was to be the first to distinguish vertebrates from invertebrates).  What he [Lamarck] was occupying was the chair of all the zoology that nobody wanted.  Birds, mammals, reptiles, fishes-- there were men eager to profess them all.   What was left over -- in God's good creation and the dusty museum drawers -- was a lot of vermin in the way of snails, squids, spiders, insects, scorpions, worms, and such coquillage as oysters, lobsters, shrimps and the like.  This protean rubbish had baffled Linnaeus and all the other systematizers, and it had neither been classified nor seriously examined. In short, it was in limbo -- the midden of God's lowlier efforts.  And it was nineteen-twentieths of the animal kingdom." -- A description of invertebrate zoology as it existed when the naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck was appointed its chair following the French Revolution: -Donald Culross Peattie, Green Laurels: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Naturalists. Simon and Shuster, Inc., New York, 1936.

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