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cage, and he observed that she regularly extracted the oil by- 

 dipping her breast in the vessel, and then sucked the feathers 

 as before. In this way he kept her for three months. After 

 feeding, she sat quietly at the bottom of the cage, sometimes 

 making the same purring noise which first attracted his no- 

 tice, and sometimes whistling very shrilly. 



DEATH OF M. LATREILLE. 



Our readers who are interested in the science of Entomology 

 will learn with regret that the death of M. Latreille was an- 

 nounced to the Academie des Sciences on the 11th of February 

 last. This illustrious naturalist, the collaborator of the great 

 Cuvier, was born at Brives (Corrize), in the year 1762 ; he was 

 attached to the Museum of the Garden of Plants at Paris in 

 17975 as assistant to Lamarck; with whom he was afterwards 

 made adjunct Professor, and upon his death succeeded to the 

 chair of the Natural History of Invertebrate Animals. He was 

 elected into the Academy of Sciences in 1814. His princi- 

 pal works are : The Natural History of the Salamanders of 

 France, 1vol. 1800. The Natural and General History of 

 Ants, with a Collection of Memoirs, 1 vol. 8vo. 1802. Natu- 

 ral History of Crustacea and Insects, forming a continuation 

 of Sonnini s edition of Buffon, 14 vols. 8vo. Genera Crus- 

 taceorum et Insectornm, 4 vols. 8vo. 1809. Natural History 

 of Reptiles, forming a continuation to the Buffon of Castel, 

 4 vols. 8vo. The third volume of the 1st edition of Cuvier's 

 Regne Animal, and the fourth and fifth volumes of the 2nd 

 edition of the same work ; many Memoirs among those of 

 the Academy of Sciences, and of the Museum of Natural 

 History; and the principal articles on Entomology in the 

 Dictionary of Natural History by Deterville. 



He has been succeeded by M. Valenciennes, a naturalist 

 well known since his association with Cuvier in the ' His- 

 toire Naturelle des Poissons.' 



EULOGIUM ON CUVIER. 



The following is translated from M. Valenciennes' Introduc- 

 tion to the Ninth Volume of the great work on Fishes, which 

 has recently appeared. 



"We were pursuing assiduously the publication of our 

 work ; — I continued to assist my illustrious master : — Who 



