... limpet—Cuvier, in considering the organs, follows no definite plan; he gives a description "tout-a-fait fantastique" of the muscular fibres of the foot, and among other errors in this first essay on comparative anatomy he mistakes the tongue for the intromittent organ; the salivary glands, and what is probably part of the brain, being regarded as the testes, with other "erreurs materielles inconcevables, meme a l'epoque ou elle fut redigee." In his first article ... — Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard
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