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marck asked for, Lakanal established twelve chairs 

 for the teaching of different branches of natural 

 "science." * 



* Bourguin also adds that " on one point Lamarck, with more fore- 

 sight, went farther than Lakanal. He had insisted on the necessity 

 of the appointment of four demonstrators for zoology. In the decree 

 of June 10, 1793, they were even reduced to two. Afterwards they 

 saw that this number was insufficient, and to-day (1863) the depart- 

 ment of zoology is administered at the museum by four professors, in 

 conformity with the division indicated by Lamarck." 



