40 MEMOIR OF LATREILLE. 



ence respecting writings which have become classical 

 for the study of the science of which M. Latreille 

 so long held the sceptre. Their number in 1822 

 exceeded eighty, and since that period how many 

 other works, always worthy of the name of their 

 author, have to be added to the list ; among these I 

 shall only name his co-operation in the Regne Ani- 

 mal, two volumes with which M. Guvier had the 

 good fortune to enrich his monumental conception. 



" However, even all these entomological works 

 were not sufficient to exhaust M. Latreille's inde- 

 fatigable activity ; his Recherches sur le premier Age 

 du Monde et V Accord des Theogonies Phenicienne et 

 Egyptienne avec la Genese ; his Dissertation sur 

 l' Expedition du Consul Suetone Paulin en Afrique ; 

 his Considerations sur I'Atlantide de Platon ; finally, 

 his Vues sur VOrigine du Systeme metrique dans 

 I'Antiquite et sur quelques Points de Geographic An- 

 cienne, would give M. Latreille the title to be con- 

 sidered one of our most distinguished philosophers, 

 even if Entomology did not place his name above 

 that of all other contemporaries. 



" Society knew how to honour such eminent ser- 

 vices. Our colleague attained to all the high stations 

 connected with the subject in which he excelled. 

 Since ]810, he was a member of the Academy of 

 Sciences, then Professor of Entomology in the Mu- 

 seum of Natural History ; almost all the academies 

 of Europe were eager to obtain, as an associate, the 

 eminent Naturalist, consulted and venerated by zoo- 

 logists of every country as the supreme legislator in 

 Entomology 



