Note 216 — Chapter XX · THE RELATIONS BETWEEN LAMARCKISM AND DARWINISM; NEOLAMARCKISM

The earliest paper in which he adopted the Lamarckian doctrines of use and effort was his “Methods of Creation of Organic Types” (1871). In this paper Cope remarks that he “has never read Lamarck in French, nor seen a statement of his theory in English, except the very slight notices in the Origin of Species and Chambers’ Encyclopædia, the latter subsequent to the first reading of this paper.” It is interesting to see how thoroughly Lamarckian Cope was in his views on the descent theory.