11) states that Lamarck was elected to the Academy at the age of thirty; but as he was born in 1744, and the election took place in 1779, he must have been thirty-five years of age.
[17] Cuvier's _Eloge_, p.

viii.; also _Revue biographique de la Societe Malacologique_, p.

67.
[18] See letters to the Committee of Public Instruction.
[19] Cuvier's _Eloge_, p.

viii; also Bourguignat in _Revue biog.

Soc.
Malacologique_, p.