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Von Bar was another man of the same stamp; 
Cuvier, in a somewhat lower rank, another; and J. 
Miiller another.” (Lzfe and Letters of Thomas 
Henry tiuxley, i.,° p42, 1oao: 
The memory of Lamarck is deeply and warmly 
cherished throughout France. He gave his country 
a second Linné. One of the leading botanists in Eu- 
rope, and the greatest zodlogist of his time, he now 
shares equally with Geoffroy St. Hilaire and with 
Cuvier the distinction of raising biological science to 
that eminence in the first third of the nineteenth 
century which placed France, as the mother of biolo- 
gists, in the van of all the nations. When we add 
to his triumphs in pure zodlogy the fact that he was 
in his time the philosopher of biology, it is not going 
too far to crown him as one of the intellectual glories, 
not only of France, but of the civilized world. 
How warmly his memory is now cherished may be 
appreciated by the perusal of the following letter, 
with its delightful reminiscences, for which we are in- 
debted to the venerable and distinguished zodélogist and 
comparative anatomist who formerly occupied the chair 
made illustrious by Lamarck, and by his successor, 
De Blainville, and who founded the Laboratoire 
Arago on the Mediterranean, also that of Experi- 
mental Zodlogy at Roscoff, and who still conducts 
the Journal de Zoologie Expérimentale. 
PARIS LE 28 Décembre, 1899. 
M. le PROFESSEUR PACKARD. 
Cher Monsieur: Vous m/’avez fait l’honneur de 
me demander des renseignements sur la famille de 
De Lamarck, et sur ses relations, afin de vous en 
