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ENTOMOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE, &c. 
(No. Y.) 
Death of Professor Audouin.— It is with the most unfeigned regret that I 
record the decease of my friend Jean Victor Audouin, M. D., Member of the 
Institute of France (Academie des Sciences) and of the Legion of Honour; 
Professor at the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes: Member of the Societe Royale 
d’Agriculture; of the Philomatic and Entomological Societies of Paris; of the 
Academy of Sciences of Stockholm ; of the Imperial Society of Naturalists of 
Moscow; of the Royal Academy of Turin; of the Lyceum of New York; of 
the Society of Natural Sciences of Geneva ; of the Academy of Philadelphia; of 
the Natural History Societies of Hartford, Mauritius, and Hall; of the Academy 
of Georgofili, of Florence; of the Agricultural Society of Turin ; and of nume¬ 
rous provincial French Societies for the promotion of Natural Sciences; of the 
Geological Society of London, and Honorary Member of the Entomological Society 
of London. 
This distinguished naturalist departed this life on the 9th of November, 1841, 
in the prime of life, aged 44 years, having been born on the 27tli of April, 1797, 
at Paris. 
Destined by his family for the profession of the law, his zeal for the cultivation 
of natural history induced him to turn his attention to the more congenial study 
of medicine, which however served only as a more ample base for the anatomical 
investigations of the Annulose Animals which he undertook, and which were at 
once duly appreciated by Cuvier, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and Latreille, and which 
naturally led to still more elaborate researches. 
His first memoir on the anatomy of the parasitic Larva of Conops appeared in 
1818, he being then 21 years old. The memoirs which he published between 
this time and 182G manifested a more profound generalised knowledge of the 
structure of the whole annulose sub kingdom than is to be met with in the works 
of any previous writer, not even excepting Savigny (Memoires sur les Animaux 
Invertebres), Latreille (Memoires published in the Annales and Memoires du 
Museum), Cuvier, and Saint-Hilaire. 
In 1826 he commenced the publication of a series of anatomical Memoirs on 
various portions of the structure of the Crustacea, Annelida, &c., in conjunction 
with his friend Milne Edwards, which has been continued until his decease. 
He became attached, in 1826, to the Jardin des Plantes, as assistant to Lamarck 
and Latreille; and on the death of the latter, in 1833, he was elected Professor of 
Entomology, in his stead. It was in this capacity that he annually delivered a 
series of lectures, in which, in later years, he especially illustrated the natural 
history of the insects most injurious to vegetable productions ; and in prosecuting 
his researches upon these and other subjects, which he investigated with the most 
minute precision, he amassed together manuscript observations filling not fewer 
than fourteen thick quarto volumes, accompanied by a vast number of original 
drawings, and a collection of illustrations of the natural history of the insects he 
studied, their modes of attack upon plants, transformations, &c., arranged 
with the utmost care, every specimen being authenticated by references to his 
manuscripts. 
