sh thinker and naturalist of rare
breadth and catholicity, and despite the fact that he rejected Lamarck's
peculiar evolutional views, associated him with the most eminent
biologists.

In a letter to Romanes, dated in 1882, Huxley thus estimates Lamarck's
position in the scientific world:

"I am not likely to take a low view of Darwin's position in the
history of science, but I am disposed to think that Buffon and
Lamarck would run him hard in both genius and fertility. In breadth
of view and in extent of knowledge these two men were giants, though
we are apt to forget their services. Von Baer was another man of the
same stamp; Cuvier, in a somewhat lower rank, another; and J. Mueller
another." (_Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley_, ii., p. 42,
1900.)

The memory of Lamarck is deeply and warmly cherished throughout France.
He gave his country a second Linne. One of the leading botanists in
Europe, and the greatest zooelogist of his time, he now shares equally
with Geoffroy St. Hilaire and with Cuvier the distinction of raising
biological science to that eminence in the first third of the nineteenth
century which placed France, as the mother of biologists, in the van of
all the nations. When we add to his triumphs in pure zooelogy the fact
that he was in his time the philosopher of biology, it is not going too
far to crown him as one of the intellectual glories, not only of France,
but of the civilized world.

How warmly his memory is now cherished may be appreciated by the perusal
of the following letter, with its delightful reminiscences, for which we
are indebted to the venerable and distinguished zooelogist and
comparative anatomist who formerly occupied the chair made illustrious
by Lamarck, and by his successor, De Blainville, and who founded the
Laboratoire Arago on the Mediterranean, also that of Experimental
Zooelogy at Roscoff, and who still conducts the _Journal de Zoologie
Experimentale_.

PARIS LE 28 _Decembre_, 1899.

M. le PROFESSEUR PACKARD.

_Cher Monsieur_: Vous m'avez fait l'honneur de me demander des
renseignements sur la famille de De Lamarck, et sur ses relations,
afin de vous en servir dans la biographie que vous preparez de
notre grand naturaliste.

Je n'ai rien appris de plus que ce que vous voulez bien me rappeler
comme l'ayant trouve dans mon adresse de 1889. Je ne connais plus ni
les noms ni les adresses des parents de De Lamarck, et c'est av