40 MEMOIR OF LATREILLE. 
ence respecting writings whicli 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 be added to the list ; among these I 
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 sufl&cient to exhaust M. Latreille's inde- 
fatigable activity ; his Recherches sur le ^^reynier Age 
du Monde et V Accord des Theogonies Phenicienne et 
Egyptienne avec la Genese; his Dissertation sur 
V Expedition du Consul Suetone Paidin en Afriqm ; 
his Considerations sur VAtlantide de Platon ; finally, 
his Vuss sur I'Origine du Sgsteme metrique dans 
VAntiquite 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 w4th the subject in which he excelled. 
Since J810, 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 
