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by the Assembly a candidate to the chair of entomol- 
ogy, and at a following session (February 16th) De 
Blainville was unanimously elected a candidate for 
the chair of Molluscs, Vers et Zoophytes, and on the 
16th of March the royal ordinance confirming those 
elections was received by the Assembly. 
There could have been no fitter appointments made 
for those two positions. Lamarck had long known 
Latreille “and loved him as a son.” De Blainville 
honored and respected Lamarck, and fully appreciated 
his commanding abilities as an observer and thinker. 
Régsne Animal. Vis bust is to be seen on the same side of the Nou- 
velle Galerie in the Jardin des Plantes as those of Lamarck, Cuvier, 
De Blainville, and D’Orbigny. His first paper was introduced by 
Lamarck in 1792. In the minutes of the session of 4 thermidor, 
l’'an VI. (July, 1798), we find this entry: ‘* The citizen Lamarck an- 
nounces that the citizen Latreille offered to the administration to work 
under the direction of that professor in arranging the very numerous 
collection of insects of the Museum, so as to place them under the 
eye of the public.” And here he remained until his appointment. 
Several years (1825) before Lamarck’s death he had asked to have 
Latreille fill his place in giving instruction. 
Audouin (1797-1841), also an eminent entomologist and mor- 
phologist, was appointed atde-naturaliste-adjointin charge of Mollusca, 
Crustacea, Worms, and Zoéphytes. He was afterwards associated with 
H. Milne Edwards in works on annelid worms. December 26, 1827, 
Latreille asked to be allowed to employ Boisduval as a préparateur ; 
he became the author of several works on injurious insects and Lepi- 
doptera. 
