82 LAMARCE, HIS LILLE AND WOK 
It has been supposed that Lamarck, who was frank 
and at times brusque in character, had made some 
enemies, and that he had been represented to the 
Emperor as a maker of almanacs and of weather 
predictions, and that Napoleon, during a reception, 
showing to Lamarck his great dissatisfaction with 
the annuals, had ordered him to stop their publica- 
tion. 
But according to Bourguin’s statement this is not 
the correct version. He tells us: 
“ According to traditions preserved in the family 
of Lamarck things did not happen so at all. During 
a reception given to the Institute at the Tuileries, 
Napoleon, w ho really liked Lamarck, spoke to him in 
a jocular way about his weather probabilities, and 
Lamarck, very much provoked (¢rés contrarté) at 
being thus chaffed in the presence of his colleagues, 
resolved to stop the publication of his observations 
on the weather. What proves that this version is 
the true one is that Lamarck published another an- 
nual which he had in preparation for the year 1810. 
In the preface he announced that his age, ‘ill health, 
and his circumstances placed him in the unfortunate 
necessity of ceasing to busy himself with this periodi- 
cal work. He ended by inviting those who had the 
taste for meteorological een tions: and the means 
of devoting their time to it, to take up with con- 
fidence an enterprise good in itself, based on a 
eenuine foundation, and from which the public would 
derive advantageous results.” 
These opuscles, such as they were, in which 
Lamarck treated different subjects bearing on the 
winds, great droughts, rainy seasons, tides, etc., be- 
