[Lamarck's teaching on invertebrates at Paris's National Museum of Natural History between 1795-1823]. / Des pharmaciens assistent au cours des animaux sans vertébres professé par Lamarck au Paris Muséum national d'histoire naturelle entre (1795-1823).

Lamarck's teaching attracted nearly a thousand students. At least forty of them were (or became) pharmacists. Many practised in chemist's or military dispensaries. Some were known as scientists, either chemists (Braconnot, Duspasquier, Macaire), botanists (Bonnemaison, Nestler, Robert) or naturalists and travellers (Aucher-Elroy, Fontanier). Further research is necessary to elucidate the role of these pharmacists in the diffusion of scientific ideas, chiefly the transformists ones, during the nineteenth century.