FOOTNOTES:

[1] See his eloge on Lamarck, of which a translation will be found in the Thirty-ninth Number of the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. To this memoir we have been chiefly indebted for the particulars of Lamarck’s life.

[2] Memoir on the substance of fire, considered as a chemical agent in analysis.—Journal de Physique, Floreal, An. vii.

[3] Memoir on the substance of sound.—Journal de Physique, 16 & 26 Brumaire, An. vii.

[4] Animaux sans vertébres, vol. i. p. 188, 189.

[5] Animaux sans Vertébres, vol. i. p. 197, 198.

[6] Ib. p. 199.

[7] Ann. du Museum d’Hist. Nat., tom. i. p. 234.

[8] Lyell’s Principles of Geology, ii. p. 31.

[9] Principles of Geology, ii. p. 8.

[10] This subject will be found to be discussed at considerable length, and in a very satisfactory manner, in the second volume of Mr. Lyell’s Principles of Geology, p. 1-65.

[11] Animaux sans Vertébres, i. p. 260.

[12] Ibid. 258, N. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. xvi. Art. Intelligence.

[13] Kirby’s Bridge. Treat. Intro. p. xxxii.

[14] N. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. xxii. Art. Nature, 377; Anim. sans Vert. i. p. 317.

[15] Anim. sans Vert. i. p. 316.

[16] Anim. sans Vert., vol. i. 322.

[17] On the Influence of the Moon on the Earth’s Atmosphere; Journal de Physique, Prairial, an. vi. Most of Lamarck’s other essays on Meteorology will be found in the periodical just named.

[18] The most recent and probably the best edition of the Animaux sans Vertébres, is in eight volumes octavo, augmented with notes by M. M. Deshages and Milne Edwards.

[19] Animaux sans Vertébres, i. 381.

[20] Horæ Entomologicæ, p. 213.

[21] Cuvier conceives that the basin of Paris contains a greater accumulation of fossil shells than any other place of equal extent. At Grignon, no fewer than six hundred different species have been collected in a space not exceeding a few square toises.

[22] See Boisduval, Nouv. Ann. du Museum, vol. ii.

[23] Benett’s Wanderings, &c. i. p. 265.

[24] Bridg. Treat. ii. 350.

[25] Horsfield’s Catal. of the Lepidopterous Insects of Java, Intro. p. 9.

[26] This work extends to fourteen volumes (the last published in 1833), and three supplementary ones are in course of preparation.

[27] Species général des Lépidoptères, p. 158.

[28] Voyage de l’Astrolabe, Ent., pl. 4, fig. 1 and 2.

[29] Species général des Lépidoptères, vol. i. p. 184.

[30] Encyclop. Methodique, Art. Papillon, p. 67. No. 116.

[31] Descrip. Catal. of Lepid. of Indian Company, pl. i. fig. 14.

[32] Species général des Lepidoptères, i. p. 435.

[33] Wilson’s Illust. of Zoology, fol. 27.

[34] On the Plate the under figure should have been marked 1, the upper 2.

[35] Supp. to Cramer, p. 10, 11.

[36] Owing to the resemblance which this species bears to H. Cupido, the latter name has been inadvertently attached to the figure on the adjoining Plate.

[37] Zoological Illustrations, 126.

[38] Trans. of Zool. Society of London, i. p. 187.

[39] Zoological Illustrations, 2d series, 131.