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by the Assembly a candidate to the chair of entomol- 

 ogy, and at a following session (February 1 6th) De 

 Blainville was unanimously elected a candidate for 

 the chair of Molluscs, Vers et Zoophytes, and on the 

 1 6th of March the royal ordinance confirming those 

 elections was received by the Assembly. 



There could have been no fitter appointments made 

 for those two positions. Lamarck had long known 

 Latreille " and loved him as a son." De Blainville 

 honored and respected Lamarck, and fully appreciated 

 his commanding abilities as an observer and thinker. 



Regne Animal. His bust is to be seen on the same side of the Nou- 

 veiie Galerie in the Jardin des Plantes as those of Lamarck, Cuvier, 

 De Blainville, and D'Orbigny. His first paper was introduced by 

 Lamarck in 1792. In the minutes of the session of 4 thermidor, 

 I'an VI. (July, 1798), we find this entry : "The citizen Lamarck an- 

 nounces that the citizen Latreille offered to the administration to work 

 under the direction of that professor in arranging the very numerous 

 collection of insects of the Museum, so as to place them under the 

 eye of the public." And here he remained until his appointment. 

 Several years (1825) before Lamarck's death he had asked to have 

 Latreille fill his place in giving instruction. 



Audouin (1797-1841), also an eminent entomologist and mor- 

 phologist, was appointed aide-naturaliste-adjointm charge of MoUusca, 

 Crustacea, Worms, and Zoophytes. He was afterwards associated with 

 H. Milne Edwards in works on annelid worms. December 26, 1827, 

 Latreille asked to be allowed to employ Boisduval as a pr^parateur ; 

 he became the author of several works on injurious insects and Lepi- 

 doptera. 



