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of Paris for December 23, 1829, were celebrated on the 
Sunday previous in the Church of Saint-Médard, his 
parish. From the church the remains were borne to 
the cemetery of Montparnasse. At the interment, 
which took place December 30, M. Latreille, in the 
name of the Academy of Sciences, and M. Geoffroy 
St. Hilaire, in the name and on behalf of his col- 
leagues, the Professors of the Museum of Natural 
History, pronounced eulogies at the grave. The 
eulogy prepared by Cuvier, and published after his 
death, was read at a session of the Academy of 
Sciences, by Baron Silvestre, November 26, 1832. 
With the exception of these formalities, the great 
French naturalist, “the Linné of France,’ was buried 
as one forgotten and unknown. We read with aston- 
ishment, in the account by Dr. A. Mondiére, who 
made zealous inquiries for the exact site of the grave 
of Lamarck, that it is and forever will be unknown. 
It is a sad and discreditable, and to us inexplicable, 
fact that his remains did not receive decent burial. 
They were not even deposited in a separate grave, 
but were thrown into a trench apparently situated 
apart from the other graves, and from which the bones 
of those thrown there were removed every five years. 
They are probably now in the catacombs of Paris, 
mingled with those of the thousands of unknown or 
paupers in that great ossuary. * 
* Dr. Mondicre in ZL’ Homme, iv. p. 291, and Lamarck. Par un 
Groupe de Transformistes, p. 271. A somewhat parallel case is that 
of Mozart, who was buried at Vienna in the common ground of St, 
Marx, the exact position of his grave being unknown. There were no 
ceremonies at his grave, and even his friends followed him no farther 
than the city gates, owing to a violent storm.—(7%e Century Cyclo- 
pedia of Names.) 
