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MEMOIR OF LATREILLE. 
ence respecting writings which have become classical 
for the study of the science of which M. Latreille 
so long held the sceptre. Their number in 1822 
exceeded eighty, and since that period how many 
other works, always worthy of the name of their 
author, have to he added to the list ; among these 1 
shall only name his co-operation in the Regne Ani- 
mal, two volumes with which M. Cuvier had the 
good fortune to enrich his monumental conception. 
“ However, even all these entomological works 
were not sufficient to exhaust M. Latreille’s inde- 
fatigable activity ; his Recherches sur le premier Age 
da Monde et l Accord des Thiogonies Phenicienne et 
Egyptienne avec la GSnese ; his Dissertation sur 
I Expedition da Consul Sue tone Paulin en Afrique ; 
his Considerations sur VAllanlide de Platon ; finally, 
his Vues sur VOrigine da Sgsteme metrique dans 
l' Anliquite et sur quelques Points de Geographie An- 
cienne, would give M. Latreille the title to be con- 
sidered one of our most distinguished philosophers, 
even if Entomology did not place his name above 
that of all other contemporaries. 
“ Society knew how to honour such eminent ser- 
vices. Our colleague attained to all the high stations 
connected with the subject in which he excelled. 
Since 1810, he was a member of the Academy of 
Sciences, then Professor of Entomology in the Mu- 
seum of Natural History; almost all the academies 
of Europe were eager to obtain, as an associate, the 
eminent Naturalist, consulted and venerated by zoo- 
logists of every country as the supreme legislator in 
Entomology 
