VI BULLETIN 11, UNITED STATE.S NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Ill 18G1 Dr. Girard Tvas awarded the Cuvier i»iize 1»y the Institute of 

 France.* 



Dr. Girard's connection with the Smithsonian Institution is best re. 

 membered by his association with Prof. Spencer F. Baird, in preparing 

 the well known Catalogue of ISTorth American Reptiles, Part i. Serpents, 

 and in describing numerous species and genera of American reptiles 

 and fishes. His career as an author covered a period of about forty 

 years, extending from 1850 to 1891. His contributions to science num- 

 ber eighty-one ]>apers, distributed as follows: Herpetology, 21; ichthy- 

 ology, 42; helminthology, 14; theoretical biology, 3; medicine, 1 ; bibli- 

 ography, 3. 



No portrait of Dr. Girard has been i»ublislied, but the Xatioiial ]\Iu- 

 seum has a small portrait painted in Paris in 1847, by Albert de 

 Meuron. 



The following genera and species have been named in his honor: 

 Girardinus, Poey. 

 Girardinichthys, Bleeker. 

 Cambarus Girardianus, Faxon. 

 Microcyphus Girardi, Desor. 

 Synapta Girardi, Pourtales. 

 Vortex Girardi, Schmidt. 



**The commission on awards in its report published in " Comptes Rendns des 

 Stances de I'Academie des Sciences, 1861, Vol. Lir, p. 594," says: 



"Parmi les ouvrages adress^s an conconrs pour le prix Cuvier, la Uommission a 

 remarciue cenx d'nn zoologiste americain, M. Girard, snr la faune ichtliyologi(ine 

 des regions occidentales dn nonvean nionde, et snr les reptiles recneilles pendant le 

 voyage d'exploration du Capitaine Wilkes dans les mers antarctiqnes. Le dernier 

 travail publi6 aux frais du gouvernement des £tats-Unis n'est pas indigne de prendre 

 place a c6t6 des beaux et importants ouvrages dont le principal naturaliste de cette 

 expedition, M. Dana, avait precddemment enrichi la science." 



