animals be divided into two, and referred to
the bad state of preservation of the insects, the force of assistants to
care for these being insufficient. He also, in his usual tactful way,
referred to the "_complaisance extreme de la parte de M. De Lamarck_" in
1793, in assenting to the reunion in a single professorship of the mass
of animals then called "_insectes et vermes_."

The two successors of the chair held by Lamarck were certainly not
dilatory in asking for appointments. At a session of the Professors held
December 22, 1829, the first meeting after his death, we find the
following entry: "M. Latreille ecrit pour exprimer son desir d'etre
presente comme candidat a la chaire vacante par le deces de M. Lamarck
et pour rappeler ses titres a cette place."

M. de Blainville also wrote in the same manner: "Dans le cas que la
chaire serait divisee, il demande la place de Professeur de l'histoire
des animaux inarticules. Dans le cas contraire il se presente egalement
comme candidat, voulant, tout en respectant les droits acquis, ne pas
laisser dans l'oubli ceux qui lui appartiennent."

January 12, 1830, Latreille[49] was unanimously elected by the Assembly
a candidate to the chair of entomology, and at a following session
(February 16th) De Blainville was unanimously elected a candidate for
the chair of _Molluscs, Vers et Zoophytes_, and on the 16th of March the
royal ordinance confirming those elections was received by the Assembly.

There could have been no fitter appointments made for those two
positions. Lamarck had long known Latreille "and loved him as a son." De
Blainville honored and respected Lamarck, and fully appreciated his
commanding abilities as an observer and thinker.

FOOTNOTES:

[40] I have been unable to ascertain the names of any of his wives, or
of his children, except his daughter, Cornelie.

[41] "L'examen minutieux de petits animaux, analyses a l'aide
d'instruments grossissants, fatigua, puis affaiblait, sa vue. Bientot il
fut complement aveugle. Il passa les dix derniers annees de sa vie
plonge dans les tenebres, entoure des soins de ses deux tilles, a l'une
desquelles il dictait le dernier volume de son _Histoire des Animaux
sans Vertebres_."--_Le Transformiste Lamarck_, _Bull. Soc.
Anthropologie_, xii., 1889, p. 341. Cuvier, also, in his history of the
progress of natural science for 1819, remarks: "M. de La Marck, malgre
l'affoiblissement total de sa vue, poursuit avec un courage ina