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of his merits d'Orbigny did not find favour with the ' Princes of 

 Science.' . . . D'Orbigny was badly received in this Jardin des 

 Plantes, of which he has become one of the glories. They gave 

 him as a laboratory a few dilapidated rooms situated among the 

 attics, and he had no collections." ^ He was Ijuried at Pierrefitte, 

 near St. Denis, on July 2, 1857, " amid a numerous concourse of 

 notabilities." A funeral oration was pronounced on his tomb by 

 M. Daman, President of the Societe Geologique, of which a few 

 copies were printed, and u])on which Labonnefon has drawn freely 

 in his Biography (Bibl. XXII.). It is at La Rochelle, as I have 

 pointed out {ante, p. 5), that his memory has been the most 

 honoured, and that his name continues to be the most revered. 



All through his life, though he never published his "giand 

 ouvra^e," he never lost interest in the Foraminifera, and we are 

 told that " nothing gave him greater pleasure than presents oi 

 dredgings, in which he was certain to discover new forms." '^ 



(5f the existing portraits of d'Orbigny I reproduce two : one 

 (Plate I.) from the " Lithograph from Life," executed by l5]mile 

 Lavallee in 1839 and published as a frontispiece in vol. i. of the 

 " Voyage dans rAmericjue jMeridionale " ; the other (Plate VII.) 

 skilfully restored from a faded Daguerreotype which hangs in the 

 studio of Professor ]\Iarcellin Boule, who has kindly furnished me 

 with a copy. It dates from the year 1843. There is a bad bust 

 of him in terra-cotta in one of the niches on the garden front of 

 the Museum of Paleontology in the Jardin des Plantes, and a 

 medallion portrait in the cornice of one of the rooms of the 

 K.K. Naturhistorische Hofmuseum in A'ienna, on the Maria- 

 Theresien Platz facade.'' There is also a medallion portrait of 

 him on the walls of the Museum of Natural History at La Plata 

 (Argentine Piepublic). 



was appointed. He was succeeded for a few months in 1868 by Edouard Lartet, 

 after whose death there was some question of suppressing the post, but finally 

 d'Orbigny's brother-in-law, Albert Claudry, was appointed in 1872 (June 8). Gaudry 

 was succeeded on his retirement in 1903 by the present occupant of the Chair, 

 Professor jNIarcellin Boule, to whom I am indebted for much assistance in the 

 preparation of this INIemoir. (See his " Le(;on d'Ouverture," La Paleontologie au 

 Museum et TCEuvre de M. Albert Gaudry (Eevue Scientifique, May 28, 1904) for a 

 succinct account of the life and work of his predecessor.) 



1 In a later passage he observes, " In 1853 the State gave d'Orbigny a Chair 

 of Palteontology with the title of Professor-Administrator, but it gave him nothing 

 to administer. They did not dare to confide to him the national collections of 

 fossils which were divided between several professors. D'Orbigny had to rely 

 upon his own private collections for his lectures " (Revue Scientifique, Maj^ 28, 

 1904). - XXI., p. 486. 



3 See the Catalogue of the Vienna Museum, published in 1902. 



