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both of whom had become aged and infirm. Having been 

 called upon to replace the latter of these distinguished 

 men, Audouin devoted himself to the study of entomo- 

 logy, and he was engaged in exploring the south of 

 France with the view of studying the insects which 

 attack the olive trees, when he was carried off by 

 a painful illness. MM. Audouin and Edwards, united 

 by a friendship which was never weakened by the simi- 

 larity of their aims and the identity of their objects, 

 published conjointly several memoirs, amongst others the 

 work to which we have often referred, en titled Recherches 

 sur le Littoral de la France. M. Audouin has also pub- 



corapletely blind. This misfortune was, however, alleviated by the 

 cares of his daughter, who, to a certain extent, worked for him, and 

 wrote under his dictation. Lamarck has published a great number 

 of works, of which three are especially conspicuous from their size 

 and importance ; Flore Frangaise, Zoologie Philosophique, and espe- 

 cially the Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertcbres, which has 

 nobly earned for him the title of the French Linnaeus. 



t Latreille, who received from his cotemporaries the title of the 

 Prince of Entomology, was born at Brives in 1762, and died at 

 Paris in 1833. He was a member of the Institute (Academy of 

 Sciences), and of almost all the Academies of Europe, yet few men 

 have led a more unostentatious, and even laborious life. First, as a 

 young man occupying the position of an obscure parish priest, he 

 narrowly escaped death during the evil times of the revolution. 

 Subsequently he filled the place of mere assistant at the Museum, 

 and did not attain the rank of professor until after the death of 

 Lamarck. " They give me bread to eat now that I have no teeth 

 left," he exclaimed on learning his nomination to the chair, which 

 he was destined to occupy for only four years. Science truly is 

 sometimes an unjust parent, for Latreille was one of her most 

 illustrious sons. By his publication of his Genera Crustaceorum et 

 Insectorum, he divided with Cuvier the honour of having introduced 

 the natural method into zoology. The greater number of his 

 other works are equally remarkable, and his Histoire des Crustaces 

 et Insectes is a work which serves as a model for all those which 

 may succeed it. 



