MEMOIR OF CUVIER. 43 



volumes are now published ; the latter ones under 

 the superintendence of M. Valenciennes, and, when 

 completed, it will serve as a beautiful model, by 

 which the other branches of nature might be illus- 

 trated *. 



The studies of Cuvier now proceeded in their 

 wonted routine. The second edition of the " Regne 

 Animal" was superintended; in the entomological 

 part, he was again assisted by the now venerable 

 Latreille, and the labours of additional years are 

 added. Two volumes of the Ichthyology appear 

 yearly : discovery succeeded discovery, and various 

 memoirs and eloges were read in the academy. In 

 1830, a course of lectures was resumed at the Col- 

 lege de France ; and he gave a view of the history 

 and progress of science in all ages, a subject of great 

 extent and variety, and requiring a knowledge which 

 the study of many years could only attain ; the in- 

 terest they excited was best testified by the nume- 

 rous attendance. In the same year, he became 

 anxious again to see England, and to trace the march 

 which science had there made since his last visit ; 

 his important offices in the State were, however, a 

 serious hinderance to this indulgence, and the ordi- 

 nances which Charles X. was then passing, were 

 Booked upon by the people as so vexatious and un- 



* Copious notes are added to the Historical Chapter, 

 giving a short notice of the biography and works of Ich- 

 thyologists, with tables of the systems which each sup- 

 ported. 



