68 LAMARCK, HIS LIFE AND WORK 
both merited a triple crown by their works on general 
natural history, zodlogy and botany, and whose 
names, increasing in fame from age to age, will both 
be handed down to the remotest posterity.’’* 
Also in his Etudes sur la Vie, les Ouvrages, et les 
Doctrines de Buffon (1838), Geoffroy again, with 
much warmth of affection, says: 
“Attacked on all sides, injured likewise by odious 
ridicule, Lamarck, too indignant to answer these cut- 
ting epigrams, submitted to the indignity with a 
Sorrowful patience, 70.4.) deamanele Shivedia long 
while poor, blind, and forsaken, but not by me; I 
shall ever love and venerate him.” f 
The following evidently heartfelt and sincere trib- 
ute to his memory, showing warm esteem and 
thorough respect for Lamarck, and also a confident 
feeling that his lasting fame was secure, is to be 
found in an obscure little book { containing satirical, 
humorous, but perhaps not always fair or just, char- 
acterizations and squibs concerning the professors 
and aid-naturalists of the Jardin des Plantes. 
“What head will not be uncovered on hearing pro- 
nounced the name of the man whose genius was 
ignored and who languished steeped in bitterness. 
Blind, poor, forgotten, he remained alone with a glory 
of whose extent he himself was conscious, but which 
only the coming ages will sanction, when shall be 
revealed more clearly the laws of organization. 
* Fragments Biographiques, pp. 209-219. 
tale Comp anole 
t Histoire Naturelle Drolatique et Philosophique des Professeurs du 
Jardin des Plantes, etc. Par Isid, S. de Gosse. Avec des Annota- 
tions de M. Frédéric Gerard, Paris, 1847. 
