After several ineffectual attempts, I finally perceived a flat grave, surrounded by an iron railing, and covered with weeds.
Its surface seemed to me very regular, and I probed this lot.

There was a gravestone there.

The grave-digger who accompanied us cleared away the surface, and I confess that it was with the greatest pleasure and with deep emotion that we read the name Dassas.
[Illustration: POSITION OF THE BURIAL PLACE OF LAMARCK IN THE CEMETERY OF MONTPARNASSE.] "We found the place, but unfortunately, as I have previously said, the remains of Lamarck are no longer there." Mondiere added to his letter a little plan (p.

59), which he drew on the spot.[47] But the life-work of Lamarck and his theory of organic evolution, as well as the lessons of his simple and noble character, are more durable and lasting than any monument of stone or brass.

His name will never be forgotten either by his own countrymen or by the world of science and philosophy.