SCNHRB P. A. LATREILLE. 
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LATREILLE, PgtER ANDREW, a very distinguished and active natu- 
ralist, was bornin 1762. From early youth he devoted himself to the 
study of natural history, and was latterly Professor of Zoology at the 
Museum of Natural History in Paris. He was also a member of the Aca- 
demy, of the Legion of Honour, &c. Of his works on natural history, 
the most important are Précis des Charactéres génériques des Insectes. 
1797: Histoire Nat. des Salamandres de France, with engravings, 
1800: Histoire Nat. des Singes, faisant Partie de celle de Quadru- 
pédes de Buffon, 2 vols. 1801: Histoire Nat. des Reptiles, faisant 
Partie du Buffon de M. Castel, 4 vols. 1802: Essai sur l’ Histotre des 
Fourmis, §c., with engravings, 1802: Genera Crustaceorum et In- 
sectorum, with coloured engravings, 1806—1809 : Constdérations gén. 
sur ? Ordre naturel des Animauz, composant les classes des Crusta- 
cées, des Arachnides et des Insectes, 1810: Mémoires sur divers sujets 
de l’Histotre Nat. des Insectes, de Géographie ancienne et de Chro- 
nologie, 1819: Familles naturelles du Régne Animal, 1825. Owing 
to the discontinuance of the venerable Lamarck’s Lectures on the Inver- 
tebrated Animals at the Jardin des Plantes, not long before the appear- 
ance of the last-named work, the duty devolved on M. Latreille, who 
thereafter extended his studies to other departments of natural history 
than those over which he had made himself master previously. About 
the same period Cuvier confided to him that portion of the last edition 
of the Animal Kingdom which treats of the Crustacea, Arachnides, and 
Insecta. He was also engaged upona Popular Introduction to Entomo- 
