M. de Quatrefag-es on Charles Danoin. 467 



A. Giintlier, " Lists of tlie Cold-blooded Vevtebrata collected 

 by Mr. Fraser in the Aiides of Western Ecuador," Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1859, pp. 89, 402-420, pi. xx. 



E. D. Cope, " An Examination of the Reptilia and Ba- 

 trachia obtained by the Orton Expedition to Ecuador and 

 the Upper Amazon, &c.," Proc. Ac. Philad. 18G8, pn. 96- 

 119. 



Also Orton " Contribiitions to the Natural History of the 

 Valley of Quito : Keptiles," Amer. Natur. 1871, v. p. 693. 



J. de la Espada, ' Viaje al Pacifico, Vertebr., Batr. an.' 

 Madrid. 1875, 4to, 208 pp. 7 pis. Preliminary Diagnoses of 

 the new species have been published in Jorn. Sc. math, phys, 

 e nat. Lisb. ix. 1870, pp. 58-65, and An. Soc. Esp. i. 1872, 

 pp. 85-88. 



Gr. A. Boulenger, " Reptiles et Batracicns recueillis i)ar 

 M. E. de Ville dans les Andes de I'Equateur," Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, 1880, pp. 41-48, and P. Z. S. 1881, pp. 246 

 & 247, ])1. XX vi. 



A. W. E. 0"Shaughnessy, " On the Collection of Lizards 

 made by Mr. Buckley in Ecuador," P. Z. S. 1880, pp. 491- 

 49o, pi. xlix., and 1881, pp. 227-245, pis. xxii.-xxv. 



LIY. — Choj-Ies Dane III. By ]\I. DE Quatrefagp:s*. 



At the last meeting our honourable President was good enough 

 to give me notice that he would call upon me to-day to say a 

 few words with reference to the scientific labours of Darwin. 

 I could only answer that he was imposing upon me a very 

 ditHcult task^ and that it is not in a tdiort note that one can 



* Translated from the ' Coinptes Rend us de I'AcadtSmie des Sciences,' 

 1st May, 1882, pp. 1216-1222. We have thought that a transLxtion of 

 this memoir, although it contains little tliat has not appeared in mauj-- 

 notices of the great English naturalist, might be of interest to our readers 

 for several reasons. It is not only an expression of opinion upon Darwin's 

 character and work by a distinguished foreign zoologist: but it was pre- 

 pared at the special request of the President of the French Academy of 

 Sciences ; and some parts of it are of particular interest in connexion with 

 the fact of Darwin having been rejected as a Corre-'pondent of the 

 Institute, although subsequently elected. Further, M. de Quatre- 

 fages, with many Frencb naturalists, stood in opposition to the theory of 

 the origin of species by descent with modification, as enunciated by 

 Darwin ; and we have here a brief exposition of his views upon this sub- 

 ject, and side by side with this a statement of tJiose considerations whicli 

 seem to him to establish the preeminent merit of the great philosopher 

 whose loss is here commemorated, quite independently of the acceptance 

 or rejocti' u of his theory. 



