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low-citizens, and the influence of hig friends, were
sufhcicnt to protect him. At a later period he
went to reside permanently at Paris, where he was
employed in the congenial task of arranging the
iusects in the Museum of Natural History. His
zeal and talent soon rendered him the successful
competitor and superior of those whom he called
his masters. His slender emoluments sufficed to
supply his modest wants; and he procured what
was necessary to extend the limits of the science
to which his labours were devoted by writing
for the booksellers various works on the different
branches of natural history, and also on general
science. All his writings displayed intelligence
and varied information; but those treating of
entomology always evinced his rapid progress in
this science, until at last his great work, the
Genera Crustaceorum and Insectorum placed him
in the first rank of the entomologists of Europe.
In this he first mentioned his little insect de-
liverer. Under the genus Necrobia he gives, as
an Ulustration, the species called Necrobia rufi-
colis; and at the end of its descriptive mark
adds, “an insect very dear to me, for, in those
(disastrous times when I*rance groaned tremulously
under the weight of endless calamities, by the kind
intervention of Bory de St Vincent and D’Argelas,
but principally the latter, this little animal was the