Latreille ecrit pour exprimer son desir d'etre presente comme candidat a la chaire vacante par le deces de M.Lamarck et pour rappeler ses titres a cette place." M.de Blainville also wrote in the same manner: "Dans le cas que la chaire serait divisee, il demande la place de Professeur de l'histoire des animaux inarticules.

Dans le cas contraire il se presente egalement comme candidat, voulant, tout en respectant les droits acquis, ne pas laisser dans l'oubli ceux qui lui appartiennent." January 12, 1830, Latreille[49] was unanimously elected by the Assembly a candidate to the chair of entomology, and at a following session (February 16th) De Blainville was unanimously elected a candidate for the chair of _Molluscs, Vers et Zoophytes_, and on the 16th of March the royal ordinance confirming those elections was received by the Assembly.
There could have been no fitter appointments made for those two positions.

Lamarck had long known Latreille "and loved him as a son." De Blainville honored and respected Lamarck, and fully appreciated his commanding abilities as an observer and thinker.
FOOTNOTES: [40] I have been unable to ascertain the names of any of his wives, or of his children, except his daughter, Cornelie.
[41] "L'examen minutieux de petits animaux, analyses a l'aide d'instruments grossissants, fatigua, puis affaiblait, sa vue.

Bientot il fut complement aveugle.

Il passa les dix derniers annees de sa vie plonge dans les tenebres, entoure des soins de ses deux tilles, a l'une desquelles il dictait le dernier volume de son _Histoire des Animaux sans Vertebres_."-- _Le Transformiste Lamarck_, _Bull.