PROFESSOR OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY 45 



himself to the study of natural history, and particu- 

 larly botany. He has done it successfully, for it is 

 fifteen years since he published under the title of 

 Flore Franqaise the history and description of the 

 plants of France, with the mention of their proper- 

 ties and of their usefulness in the arts ; a work printed 

 at the expense of the government, well received by 

 the public, and which now is much sought after and 

 very rare." He then describes his second great bo- 

 tanical undertaking, the Encyclopcsdia and Illustra- 

 tion of Genera, with nine hundred plates. He states 

 that for ten years past he has kept busy " a great 

 number of Parisian artists, three printing presses for 

 different works, besides delivering a course of lec- 

 tures." 



The petition was granted. At about this period 

 a pension of twelve hundred francs from the Academy 

 of Sciences, and which had increased to three thou- 

 sand francs, had ceased eighteen months previously 

 to be paid to him. But at the time (an H.) Lamarck 

 was " charg6 de sept enfans," and this appropriation 

 was a most welcome addition to his small salary. 



The next year (an HI.) he again applied for a simi- 

 lar allowance from the funds providing an indemnity 

 for men of letters and artists " whose talents are use- 

 ful to the Republic." Again referring to the Flore 

 Franqaise, and his desire to prepare a second edition 

 of it, and his other works and travels in the interest 

 of botanical science, he says : 



" If I had been less overburdened by needs of all 

 kinds for some years, and especially since the sup- 

 pression of my pension from the aforesaid Academy 

 of Sciences, I should prepare the second edition of 

 this useful work ; and this would be, without doubt, 



