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MEMOIR OF LATREILLE. 
coffin should be borne by the members of that So- 
ciety, and M. Audouin was appointed to address the 
final admix of the members to the illustrious de- 
ceased. The funeral took place on the 8th February. 
The bier was conveyed to the cemetery of Est (Pere 
la Chaise), supported by the members of the Society; 
the Institute, the Administration of the Jardin-du- 
Eoi, and the Entomological Society, were respec- 
tively represented by MM. Geoffrey Saint-IIilaire, 
Dulong, Do Blainville, and the Count Lepeletier de 
Saint-Fargeau, who supported the comers of the 
pall. An immense concourse of naturalists and men 
of learning and science composed the cortege. 
After the military honours, which were paid to 
the deceased as a member of the Legion of Honour, 
three discourses were pronounced over his tomb : 
the first by M. Geoffroy Saint-IIilaire in the name 
of the Institute, the second by M. Cordier in the 
name of the professors of the Jardin-du-Roi, and 
the third by M. Audouin for the Entomological 
Society of France. The following is a translation 
of that by the first-mentioned individual : — 
“ Gentlemen, 
“ Of the friend, the rival, and colleague of Lace- 
pedo, Lamarck, and Cuvier, nothing now remains 
to us but these ashes, already placed among these 
tombs where so much intellectual greatness has ter- 
minated. The loss of M. Latreille to zoological 
science, which he illustrated for so many years by 
the energies of his truly superior mind, has left 
