MEMOIR OF LAMARCK. 243 



eighty-five. Latreille and Blainville were his successors 

 at the museum. The incredible activity of the first 

 professor had so greatly increased the number of the 

 known invertebrata that it was found necessary to 

 endow two professors, where one had originally been 

 sufScient. 



"His two daughters were left penniless. In the 

 year 1832 I myself saw Mile. Comelie de Lamarck 

 earning a scanty pittance by fastening dried plants 

 on to paper, in the museum of which her father had 

 been a professor. Many a species named and described 

 by him must have passed under her eyes and increased 

 the bitterness of her regret." * 



• Introduction Biographi^ue to M. Martins' edition of the ' Piiil. 

 Zool.,' pp. ix-xx. 



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