LAST DAYS AND DEATH 6 1 



Paris, on February lo, 1875, gave the name Lamarck 

 to a street* This is a long and not unimportant street 

 on the hill of Montmartre in the XVIII' arrondisse- 

 ment, and in the zone of the old stone or gypsum 

 quarries which existed before Paris extended so far 

 out in that direction, and from which were taken the 

 fossil remains of the early tertiary mammals described 

 by Cuvier. 



The city of Toulouse has also honored itself by 

 naming one of its streets after Lamarck ; this was 

 due to the proposal of Professor ^mile Cartailhac to 

 the Municipal Council, which voted to this effect May 

 12, 1886. 



In the meetings of the Assembly of Professors no 

 one took the trouble to prepare and enter minutes, 

 however brief and formal, relative to his decease. 

 The death of Lamarck is not even referred to in the 

 Procis-verbaux . This is the more marked because 

 there is an entry in the same records for 1829, 

 and about the same date, of an extraordinary sdance 

 held November 19, 1829, when "the Assembly" 

 was convoked to take measures regarding the 

 death of Professor Vauquelin relative to the choice 

 of a candidate, Chevreul being elected to fill his 

 chair. 



Lamarck's chair was at his death divided, and the 



* The Rue Lamarck begins at the elevated square on which is situ- 

 ated the Church of the Sacre-Coeur, now in process of erection, and 

 from this point one obtains a commanding and very fine view over- 

 looking the city ; from there the street curves round to the westward, 

 ending in the Avenue de Saint-Ouen, and continues as a wide and long 

 thoroughfare, ending to the north of the cemetery of Montmartre. A 

 neighboring street, Rue Becquerel, is named after another French 

 savant, and parallel to it is a short street named Rue Darwin. 



