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Von Bar was another man of the same stamp; 

 Cuvier, in a somewhat lower rank, another ; and J. 

 Muller another." (Life and Letters of Thomas 

 Henry Huxley, ii., p. 42, 1900. 



The memory of Lamarck is deeply and warmly 

 cherished throughout France. He gave his country 

 a second Linn6. One of the leading botanists in Eu- 

 rope, and the greatest zoologist of his time, he now 

 shares equally with Geoffroy St. Hilaire and with 

 Cuvier the distinction of raising biological science to 

 that eminence in the first third of the nineteenth 

 century which placed France, as the mother of biolo- 

 gists, in the van of all the nations. When we add 

 to his triumphs in pure zoology the fact that he was 

 in his time the philosopher of biology, it is not going 

 too far to crown him as one of the intellectual glories, 

 not only of France, but of the civilized world. 



How warmly his memory is now cherished may be 

 appreciated by the perusal of the following letter, 

 with its delightful reminiscences, for which we are in- 

 debted to the venerable and distinguished zoologist and 

 comparative anatomist who formerly occupied the chair 

 made illustrious by Lamarck, and by his successor, 

 De Blainville, and who founded the Laboratoire 

 Arago on the Mediterranean, also that of Experi- 

 mental Zoology at Roscoff, and who still conducts 

 the Journal de Zoologie Expdrimentale. 



Paris le 28 D^cembre, 1899. 



M. le Professeur Packard. 



Cher Monsieur: Vous m'avez fait I'honneur de 

 me demander des renseignements sur la famille de 

 De Lamarck, et sur ses relations, afin de vous en 



