• 1 Laboratoire d'Analyse, Topologie, Probabilités

Feller diffusion is a continuous branching process. The branching property tells us that for t > 0 fixed, when indexed by the initial condition, it is a subordinator (i. e. a positive–valued Lévy process), which is fact is a compound Poisson process. The number of points of this Poisson process can be interpreted as the number of individuals whose progeny survives during a number of generations of the order of t × N, where N denotes the size of the population, in the limit N ―>µ. This fact follows from recent results of Bertoin, Fontbona, Martinez [1]. We compare them with older results of de O’Connell [7] and [8]. We believe that this comparison is useful for better understanding these results. There is no new result in this presentation.