While there a comrade in play lifted him by the head; this gave rise to an inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the neck, which, not receiving the necessary attention on the spot, obliged him to go to Paris for better treatment.
"The united efforts [says Cuvier] of several surgeons met with no better success, and danger had become very imminent, when our _confrere_, the late M.Tenon, with his usual sagacity, recognized the trouble, and put an end to it by a complicated operation, of which M.de Lamarck preserved deep scars.

This treatment lasted for a year, and, during this time, the extreme scantiness of his resources confined him to a solitary life, when he had the leisure to devote himself to meditations." FOOTNOTES: [1] In the little chapel next the church lies buried, we were told by M.Duval, a Protestant of the family of de Guillebon, the purchaser (_acquereur_) of the _chateau_.

Whether the estate is now in the hands of his heirs we did not ascertain.
[2] As stated by G.de Mortillet, the date of his birth is variously given.

Michaud's _Dictionnaire Biographique_ gives the date April 1; other authors, April 11; others, the correct one, August 1, 1744.
(_Lamarck.

Par un Groupe de Transformistes, ses Disciples._ _L'Homme_, iv.p.289, 1887.) [3] "Sur la maison de Viella--les Mortiers-brevise et les Montalembert en Gascogne--et sur le naturaliste Lamarck." Par Hippolyte Masson.
(_Revue de Gascogne_, xvii., pp.