Alcich d' Orlngny . 



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XIX. W. K. Parker and T. Rupert Jones. On the Nomenclature of Ihe 

 Foraminifera. Part X. (continued). III. The Species illus- 

 trated by Models. Ibid., xvi. (1865) pp. 15-41 (pis. i-iii). 



XX. Part XIV. IV. The Species founded upon the Figures in 



Soldani's " Testaceographia ac Zoophytographia." Ibid., ser. 4, 

 viii. (1871) pp. 145-179, 238-266 (pis. viii-xii). 



XXI. P. Fischer. — Notice sur la vie et les travaux d'Alcide d'Orbignv. 

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 Les Coutemporains, No. 718, Paris, n.d. (1906) p. 16 (woodcuts). 



XXIII. C. Basset. — Foraminiferes de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles 



de la Charente Inferieure. Soc. des Sci. Nat. de la Charente 

 Inf. Annales de 1884 ; La Rochelle (1885) pp. 153-173 (photo- 

 graphic plate). 



XXIV. E. Beltrejiieux. — Le Naturaliste d'Orbignv a Esnandes. Ibid., 



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XXVII. The Foraminifera of the Kerimba Archipelago (Portuguese 



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Note to page 9. — It was difficult to resist becoming a little carried away by 

 the mention of the Conventionnel Billaud-Varennes. Not only was he born at 

 La Rochelle, where his father was an avocat iu an excellent position, but it was to 

 La Rochelle that he was brought, after a terrible journey, on which he narrowly 

 escaped with his life from the fury of the populace at Orleans, Tours, Poitiers, and 

 Niort, on the 12th April, 1795, after the reaction of the 9th Thcrmidor. His 

 father and mother met him at the Port, and spent a few hours with him before 

 his incarceration on the lie d'Oleron, preparatory to his embarkation for Cayenne. 

 From thence he made a tragic progress, transferred in turn to Sinnamary — where 

 even his political colleagues, exiled thither in 1797, refused to be associated with 

 him— and to Makourin, iu French Guiana. Here he refused the amnesty granted 

 to political prisoners in 1800. His wife, Angelique Doye, whose adventures after 

 the transportation of Billaud-Varennes is a romance in itself, came to La Rochelle 

 in 1796, anxious to join him in his exile in Guiana, but Billaud-Varennes would 

 not consent to her making the journey. He had taken to himself a young negress 

 of sixteen year.s, who became his faithful companion until his death. They moved 

 from one plantation to another, and in May ISIG they went to the United States, 

 living in turn in great hardships at Newport and New York ; and in September of 

 the same year they went and settled in San Domingo, the ancestral home of the 

 d'Orbignys. It was only here that he abandoned " the terrible lion's mane " — 

 the yellow peruke that he had always worn, even in exile — and it was here that he 

 died' on the 13th June, 1819. The curious interweaving of the lives of Billaud- 

 Varennes and d'Orbigny prre in La Rochelle and San Domingo has always im- 

 pressed me vividly. Angelique Doye died in 1815; the negro wife of Billaud- 

 Varennes was still living in extreme old age at Port-au-Prince in 1874. 



