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MEMOIR OF LATREILLE.

stands in the cemetery of Est or Père la Chaise, pièce du Protestant, 39th division, No. 90, and is placed near the margin of the path. It is in the form of a truncated obelisk, nine (French) feet in height, composed of a monolith of polished Chateau-Landon stone, resting on a pedestal of the same, and surmounted by a bronze bust of Latreille. The whole is surrounded by an iron railing.

On the front is the following inscription:

PETRUS ANDREAS
LATREILLE.
SCIENTIARUM ET ARTIUM
INSTITUTI GALLICI
SOCIUS
IN MUSEO PARISIENSI ENTOMOLOGIÆ
PROFESSOR,
ETC.
NATUS IN BRIVA-CURRETIA
XXIX. DIE NOVEMBRI
MDCCLXII.

PARISIIS OBIIT
VI. DIE FEBRUARII
MDCCCXXXII.

ENTOMOLOGIÆ PRINCIPI
PARENTES SODALES DISCIPULI
PRÆSIDIQUE SUO
ENTOMOLOGORUM GALLIÆ
SOCIETAS
EX ÆRE COLLATO
ÆDIFICAVERUNT.