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who were already professors or demonstrators : 

 but MM. Faujas and Lamarck were otherwise 

 situated : the correspondance thenceforth per- 

 taining to the assembly, and the herbarium being 

 placed under the direction of the professor of 

 botany, they were left without employment. In 

 this embarrassment, M. Faujas, well known by 

 his travels and his beautiful work on the vol- 

 canoes of the Vivarais , was made professor of 

 geology; and M. de Lamarck, equally versed in 

 zoology and botany, and reputed the best con- 

 chy ologist in France , was appointed to teach the 

 history of invertebrated animals. The determinate 

 direction thus given to his labours, has procured 

 the scientific world some distinguished works. 



The administration was aware of the impor- 

 tance of dividing the zoological instruction 

 into three parts ; but as M. de Lacepede had a 

 few months before resigned the place of sub- 

 demonstrator and keeper of the cabinet , the 

 third chair , to which he had unquestionable 

 claims , was left vacant , in the hope that , at a 

 more favorable moment, he would be*called to 

 fill it: which accordingly took place. In the mean 

 time, M. Geoffroy, who had succeeded him in 

 the cabinet, undertook alone to teach the history 

 of quadrupeds, birds, fishes, and reptiles. 



On the 9th of July 1793, the professors having 



