LAST DAVS AND DEATH 61 
Paris, on February 10, 1875, gave the name Lamarck 
toastreet.* This isa long and not unimportant street 
on the hill of Montmartre in the XVIII* arrondisse- 
ment, and in the zone of the old stone or gypsum 
quarries which existed before Paris extended so far 
out in that direction, and from which were taken the 
fossil remains of the early tertiary mammals described 
by Cuvier. 
The city of Toulouse has also honored itself by 
naming one of its streets after Lamarck; this was 
due to the proposal of Professor Emile Cartailhac to 
the Municipal Council, which voted to this effect May 
12, 1886. 
Inthe meetings of the Assembly of Professors no 
one took the trouble to prepare and enter minutes, 
however brief and formal, relative to his decease. 
The death of Lamarck is not even referred to in the 
Procés-verbaux. This is the more marked because 
there is an entry in the same records for 1820, 
and about the same date, of an extraordinary séance 
held November 19, 1829, when “the Assembly’”’ 
was convoked to take measures regarding the 
death of Professor Vauquelin relative to the choice 
Of a candidate, Chevreul’ being elected (toc fill iis 
chair. 
Lamarck’s chair was at his death divided, and the 
* The Rue Lamarck begins at the elevated square on which is situ- 
ated the Church of the Sacré-Cceur, now in process of erection, and 
from this point one obtains a commanding and very fine view over- 
looking the city ; from there the street curves round to the westward, 
ending in the Avenue de Saint-Ouen, and continues as a wide and long 
thoroughfare, ending to the north of the cemetery of Montmartre. A 
neighboring street, Rue Becquerel, is named after another French 
savant, and parallel to it is a short street named Rue Darwin. 
