rvices, as above stated, he goes on to say:

"Armed with this document, I went again to the cemetery of
Montparnasse, where I fortunately found a conservator, M. Lacave,
who is entirely _au courant_ with the question of transformism. He
therefore interested himself in my inquiries, and, thanks to him, I
have been able to determine exactly where Lamarck had been buried. I
say had been, because, alas! he had been simply placed in a _trench
off on one side_ (_fosse a part_), that is to say, one which should
change its occupant at the end of five years. Was it negligence, was
it the jealousy of his colleagues, was it the result of the troubles
of 1830? In brief, there had been no permission granted to purchase
a burial lot. The bones of Lamarck are probably at this moment mixed
with those of all the other unknown which lie there. What had at
first led us into an error is that we made the inquiries under the
name of Lamarck instead of that of de Monnet. In reality, the
register of inscription bears the following mention:

"'De Monnet de Lamarck buried this 20 December 1829 (85 years), 3d
square, 1st division, 2d line, trench 22.'

"At some period later, a friendly hand, without doubt, had written
on the margin of the register the following information:

"'To the left of M. Dassas.'

"M. Lacave kindly went with us to search for the place where Lamarck
had been interred, and on the register we saw this:

"'Dassas, 1st division, 4th line south, No. 6 to the west,
concession 1165-1829.' On arriving at the spot designated, we found
some new graves, but nothing to indicate that of M. Dassas, our only
mark by which we could trace the site after the changes wrought
since 1829. After several ineffectual attempts, I finally perceived
a flat grave, surrounded by an iron railing, and covered with weeds.
Its surface seemed to me very regular, and I probed this lot. There
was a gravestone there. The grave-digger who accompanied us cleared
away the surface, and I confess that it was with the greatest
pleasure and with deep emotion that we read the name Dassas.

[Illustration: POSITION OF THE BURIAL PLACE OF LAMARCK IN THE CEMETERY
OF MONTPARNASSE.]

"We found the place, but unfortunately, as I have previously said,
the remains of Lamarck are no longer there."

Mondiere added to his letter a little plan (p. 59), which he drew on the
spot.[47]

But the life-work