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Banyuls. The former was founded in 1872 and was later constituted 

 an annexe to the Laboratories of the Sorbonne. The " Laboratoire 

 Arago," at Banyuls-sur-Mer, was established in 1881 with the aid of 

 a public- spirited contribution offered by the Municipal Council of 

 that town. These laboratories have had the double object of 

 bringing students of Zoology into contact with living marine 

 animals during the first years of their study of Biology, arid of 

 encouraging original research. For the latter object they have been 

 thrown open to Zoologists from all parts of the world, with a 

 hospitality to which the writer of these lines can testify from two 

 separate visits to Roscoff. It is unnecessary to comment on the 

 results of the enlightened policy which has given these admirable 

 institutions a world-wide reputation. 



Lacaze-Duthiers' efforts were not unrecognised in his own and 

 other countries. He was Professor successively, and for about half 

 a century, at the Faculte des Sciences of Lille, and at the Ecole Nor- 

 male, and at the Museum and Faculte des Sciences of Paris. In 

 1887 his portrait was subscribed for by many of his pupils and other 

 friends, as a token of the esteem in which his work was held. In 

 1897 he became a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. In 1900 

 the Faculte des Sciences of the University of Barcelona presented 

 him with his bust, in recognition of his services in founding the 

 Laboratory at Banyuls, and of the hospitality there shown to 

 naturalists on the other side of the Spanish frontier. With this 

 movement was associated a Committee including the names of 

 many of the most distinguished Zoologists all over the world, 

 nnd the presentation was made with impressive ceremony at 

 the Sorbonne. The diploma of " Membre protecteur de la Societe 

 espagnole d'Histoire naturelle," a distinction previously granted only 

 to four members of ruling houses, was bestowed on him at the same 

 time. 



The presentation at the Sorbonne proved to be one of the closing- 

 events of his life. Lacaze-Duthiers died at Las Fous in Perigord, 

 on July 21, 1901, in his 80th year. 



S. F. H. 



