48 MEMOIR OF CUVIER. 



indeed to find one fitted to hold, with equal candour 

 and ahility, the various offices to which he had heen 

 appointed. He had asked to be buried without ce- 

 remony, but this was one of the few requests which 

 France denied to him ; she could not allow one of 

 such renown to pass away unnoticed, and without re- 

 ceiving the last homage of his admirers. His remains 

 were laid in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise ; and 

 the funeral procession was followed by deputations 

 from the Council of State, preceded by the Keeper 

 of the Seals ; from the Academies of Sciences, o 

 Inscriptions, of Medicine, of France ; by Members o 

 the two Chambers, the Ecole Polytechnique, &c, 

 His remains were alternately borne by pupils from 

 the laboratory of the Jardin des Plantes, from the 

 Schools d'Urfort, of Law, and Medicine, and first 

 taken to the Protestant Church in the Rue des Bil- 

 lettes. The pall was supported by M. Pasquier, 

 President of the Chamber of Peers, M. Devaux, 

 Councillor of State, M. Arago, Secretary of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, and M. Villemain, 

 Vice- President of the Royal Council of Public In- 

 struction. Monuments are to be erected to his me- 

 mory in the Garden of Plants, and at Montbeliard, 

 arid Louis- Philippe bas ordered marble busts by the 

 most celebrated sculptors, to be placed in the Insti- 

 tute and Gallery of Anatomy. 



We have now finished a very rapid sketch of the 

 principal events in the active life of Baron Cuvicr. 

 and have noticed his greatest works, from which we 



