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Of the two sons who by their absence in France escaped massacre, 

 Charles Marie, born at sea as akeady related (see p. 3), and registered 

 at Port Malo (San Domingo), January '2, 1770, was the father of Alcide 

 d'Orbigny, whose career forms the subject of this Memoir. The other, 

 Melchior d'Orbigny, returned to San Domingo to endeavour to save what 

 was left of the family property, and is said to have perished at sea on 

 the journey thither. 



Charles Marie married (as stated) Marie Anne Pipat on Octoljer 20, 

 1799, and had seven children. 1. Estelle born in 1880, died iu 1893 

 (see p. 4). 2. Alcide, the subject of this Memoir. 3. Melquior, who died 

 at the age of eleven years, i. Charles, born at Coueron December 12, 

 180G, whose career has been set forth (see p. 8). 5. Edouard (see 

 note 2, p. 9). He made a study of marine alg£e, but published nothing. 

 His two youngest sons, Louis and Marcel, aged respectively seventeen 

 and thirteen years, were already passionate geologists and were killed 

 by a land-slide at the Falaise de la Pointe du Chai near La Rochelle 

 whilst hunting for fossils. 6. Salvador, born December 17, 1808, died 

 in 1883. 7. Theophile, who died in lw20, aged seven years. 



Alcide d'Orbigny married first Pamela Martignon, who died August 2, 

 1842, by whom he had one daughter, Noemi, who died unmarried at 

 the age of twenty-four. His second wife was Marie Gaudry, daughter 

 of the Usher (Baton nier) of the Order of Advocates to the Court of 

 Appeal in Paris, and sister of Albert Gaudry, the Geologist, Membre 

 de I'Listitut, and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of London, who 

 later held d'Orbigny's Chair of Palseontology in Paris (see p. 70, note).^ 

 By his second Avife, who was born August 29, 1824, and died in Paris, 

 October 23, 1903, he had three children. 1. Henri Joseph d'Orbigny, 

 born May 16, 1845, died June 29, 1915 (see p. 87).- Until the age 

 of fifty he followed, reluctantly, the profession of an architect, after 

 which he devoted his life to Entomology, on which he published many 

 important works. He married Marie Thercse Bedel, daughter of a 

 Conseillcr a la Cour d'Appel, who still lives iu Paris (1916), and to 

 whom I am indebted for most of this information regarding the family. 

 2. Berthe, born June 20, 1847, married Jules Deville, and died 

 January 23, 1908. 3. Isabelle, born September 26, 1849, married 



The book is identical, the plates worn. In this, also, it is stated that " Dessa- 

 lines" was the slave of another negro, a " proprietaire " of San Domingo. After 

 a short reign of appalling brutality " Jacques I." was murdered at Port au Prince, 

 October 17, 1806. On the other hand, in a ghastly little book by Dubroca, " La 

 Vie de J. J. Dessaliues, Chef des Noirs Eevoltes de Saint Domingue," Paris, 

 Ann. xiii. (1804), we are told again that Jacques was the slave of a negro proprietor 

 named JJessalines, but that his first action in the revolt was to murder his 

 proprietor and assume his name. And there we must leave it. Non nostrum 

 tantas comjwnere lites ! Mme. d'Orbigny assures me that the above account is 

 entirely false, having been copied by one author from another, and that she has 

 often heard the real story from theilips of Mile. Estelle d'Orbigny (see p. 4, note 2), 

 who had the account of his early life at San Domingo direct from her father. 



' The father of Albert and Marie Gaudry was himself an enthusiastic collector 

 of minerals. (See Marcellin Boule, op. cit., p. 70, ante.) 



" He has sometimes been referred to as Marie Joseph d'Orbigny, that name 

 appearing on a copy of his baptismal certificate, but the original gives his correct 

 name Henri Joseph. 



