5go APPENDIX. 



Reptiles and Fishes* 



Professor. M. de Lac^pede (Bernard Germain Stephen), born at 

 Agen, in 1766; peer of France, grand cross of the legion of honour, 

 member of the institute at its creation ; named keeper and demon- 

 strator at the king's garden in 1786, and professor at the institution of 

 the third chair of zoology in 1796. 



Essay on electricity, 2 vol. 8, 1781 ; Natural philosophy, general and 

 particular, 2 vol. 12, 1782 ; Poetry of music, 2 vol. 12, 1787 ; History 

 of oviparous quadrupeds and of serpents, forming a continuation of 

 Buffon's Natural history, 2 vol. 4% 1 /88, reprinted in 8 and 12; Na- 

 tural history of fishes, 5 vol. 4 b j 1 798, reprinted in 8 and 12, i8o5; 

 Natural history of cetaceous animals, i vol. 4% 1804 ; the Menagerie of 

 the Museum, in conjunction with MM. Geoffroy and G. Cuvier, i vol. 

 folio, reprinted 12; several memoirs in the Transactions of the aca- 

 demy of sciences, the Dictionary of natural sciences, and the Annals of 

 the Museum. 



Substitute. M. Dumeril (Andrew Marie-Constant), born at Amiens, 

 in 1774; member of the institute in i8i3, secretary to the medical 

 division of the royal society of medicine. 



Digest and abridgment of the two first volumes of M.Cuvier's Lec- 

 tures on comparative anatomy ; Analytic zoology, i vol. 8, 1806 ; Ele- 

 ments of natural history, two editions, the first i vol. 8, i8o4> the 

 second, 2 vols. 8, 1807 ; several zoological memoirs in the Methodical 

 Cyclopaedia, in the Register of the philomatic society, etc. He is author 

 of the articles on entomology in the Dictionary of natural sciences. 



Assistant. M. Valenciennes (Achilles), born in Paris in 1794 ; nomi- 

 nated to succeed his father in the Museum in 1812. 



Several memoirs of his are inserted in the Annals of the Museum, and 

 he has aided M. de Humboldt in the publication of his zoological ob- 

 servations. Under the direction of the professors of zoology and com- 

 parative anatomy, he has been charged, since the enlargement of the 

 cabinet, with arranging and naming the collection of vertebrated 

 animals. 



Animals without vertebra. 



Professor. M.. de Lamarck, (John Baptist Peter Anthony), born at 

 Bazantin, near Bapaume, in 1744 ; member of the academy of science* 



