68 LAMARCK, HIS LIFE AND WORK 



both merited a triple crown by their works on general 

 natural history, zoology and botany, and whose 

 names, increasing in fame from age to age, will both 

 be handed down to the remotest posterity."* 



Also in his Etudes sur la Vie, les Outrages, et les 

 Doctrines de Buffon (1838), Geoff roy again, with 

 much warmth of affection, says : 



"Attacked on all sides, injured likewise by odious 

 ridicule, Lamarck, too indignant to answer these cut- 

 ting epigrams, submitted to the indignity with a 

 sorrowful patience. . . . Lamarck lived a long 

 while poor, blind, and forsaken, but not by me ; I 

 shall ever love and venerate him." f 



The following evidently heartfelt and sincere trib- 

 ute to his memory, showing warm esteem and 

 thorough respect for Lamarck, and also a confident 

 feeling that his lasting fame was secure, is to be 

 found in an obscure little book \ containing satirical, 

 humorous, but perhaps not always fair or just, char- 

 acterizations and squibs concerning the professors 

 and aid-naturalists of the Jardin des Plantes. 



" What head will not be uncovered on hearing pro- 

 nounced the name of the man whose genius was 

 ignored and who languished steeped in bitterness. 

 Blind, poor, forgotten, he remained alone with a glory 

 of whose extent he himself was conscious, but which 

 only the coming ages will sanction, when shall be 

 revealed more clearly the laws of organization. 



* Fragments Biographiqties, pp. 209-219. 



+ L. c. p. 81. 



X Histoire Naturelle Drolatique et Philosophique des Professeurs du 

 Jardin des Plantes, etc. Par Isid. S. de Cosse. Avec des Annota- 

 tions de M. FrM&ic Gerard. Paris, 1847. 



