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Prozet, a pharmacist of Orléans. During the Revolution (in 
1793) the garden and conservatories were transformed into clubs. 
Subsequently (date not determined) the Abbé Frangois-Noél- 
Alexandre Dubois (b. 1752; d. 1824) became demonstrator at 
the Garden. 
In 1806 the Garden became the property of the City, under a 
head gardener named Gaucherot. Director 1808-1826, a “ gar- 
dener-botanist,” named Gaillard (from Paris). Auguste de Saint- 
Hilaire became a member of the Société des Sciences of Orléans, 
but his relation to the Botanic Garden is not known. From 1816 
the Garden was for some time under a board of “ Conservators ” 
appointed by the mayor. From 1826-1831, and later, a course of 
instruction in botany was given by Pelletier. In 1835 the Garden 
was moved to a new site of 3 hectares, 41 ares, 40 centiares, at 
the junction of the Route de Saint-Mesmin and the Rue Guigne- 
gault, where it still was in 1873. In 1847 Al. Jullien-Crosnier, a 
botanist, was made Conservator. He completed the nursery and 
conservatories. From 1866 the Garden was administered by a 
commission of five members appointed by the City Council. 
bove based on Rossignol-Louis. Notice Historique sur le 
Jardin des Plantes d’Orleans. Orléans, 1874. No reply to our 
questionnaire. ) 
PARIS (1) 
Muséum NatTIoNaL D’HistTorrE NATURELLE 
(JARDIN DES PLANTES) 
57 Rue Cuvier, Paris (V°) 
Established: 1635 (See Note 1). Area: 30 hectares. 
Note 1: In 1597, or earlier, Jean Robin had a garden of medici- 
nal plants of his own at Paris, containing 1300 plants of which he 
published a catalogue in 1601. His son, Vespasien, published a 
new catalogue in 1624, listing more than 1800 plants. In January, 
1626, Louis XIII (by letters patent registered at Parlement July 
6, 1626), at the solicitation of “le sieur Hérouard,” his chief phy- 
sician, and Guy de la Brosse, his physician in ordinary, authorized 
the establishment of “ un Jardin royal” in one of the faubourgs of 
Paris, “to contain all kinds of medicinal herbs . . . for the in- 
struction of the students of the University of Medicine.” An 
