Alcide d'Orhigny. 13 



from Eawack, Port Jackson, the Admiralty (Seychelles), Marianne, 

 Malouines, and Sandwich Islands, Mauritius and elsewhere ; from 

 Lesson and Garnaud (sic ? Garnot, see note 1, p. 52), naturalists 

 on board Admiral Duperrey's voyage round the world,^ material 

 from Eawack,^ the Malouines,^ Mauritius, and the Cape of Good 

 Hope ; from Brongniart, fossil material from Castel Arquato and 

 the Paris Basin ; from Defrance, recent material from the Eed 

 Sea, fossil from Orglandes and Valognes ; from Leclerc-Thouin, 

 recent material from the Mediterranean, fossil from Paris, Monto- 

 lieux and Chavagnes ; from Eang, material from the Mediterranean ; 

 from Dufresne, fossil material from Paris and England ; from 

 Grateloup of Bordeaux, the fossil material from Dax ; from Boue, 

 fossil material from Dax, Bordeaux, and Paris ; from Guerin (see 

 p. 14, note 2), various samples ; and from Gerville, the fossils of 

 Valognes, Orglandes, and other localities in the department of 

 Calvados. One has only to glance through the pages of the 

 " Tableau Methodique " to see what use he made of each and all 

 of these contributions to his work (see p. 29). 



The bulk of this remarkable collection he took to Paris with 

 him in 1824, where it is still preserved. But, alas ! as we have 

 had occasion to record elsewhere, the original bottles and tubes 

 containing d'Orbigny's material were stored in the cellars of the 

 Musee de Paleontologie ; these cellars were flooded by the rising 

 of the Seine in 1912, and many of the labels were washed off and 

 lost.* Fortunately, however, when Schlumberger went over the 

 collection he put labels inside many of the bottles (a lesson to all 

 collectors), and we owe it to him that the loss to science was not 

 greater than it is. 



II.— The Models. 



The first tangible result of d'Orbigny's work at La Eochelle 

 was the construction and issue of his celebrated " Models." 

 Students of the group who have sometimes a tendency to regard 

 these Models with something like tolerant pity must not lose 

 sight of the fact that Daguerre was at that time only groping, 

 literally in the dark, after the effects of light upon iodide of silver, 

 and that microphotography was undreamed of. I have often 

 wondered when looking at the early daguerreotype of d'Orbigny 



' L. J. Duperrey, "Vovage autour du Monde . . . sur . . . la Coquille pendant 

 , . . 1822-25," Paris, 1826-1834. (See Sherborn and Woodward, Art. cit., p. 47, 

 note 3.) 



- The lie de Rawack is known in British Admiralty Charts as Lawak Island ; 

 it lies off the N.W. coast of New Guinea in 0' 1' 20" S., and 131' 1' 30" E. 



' Now known as the Falkland Islands, off the S.E. coast of South America, 



* XXVII., p. 544. 



