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DECEMBER 1899] LACEPEDE’S “ TABLEAUX” 407 
Ovipares,” which still bears the Saugrain title-page; Professor Newton 
has the greater part of an original set containing some of the Saugrain 
title-pages, which formerly belonged to Mr. de Winton, while Mr. de 
Winton has recently acquired a second set, bearing the Didot replace- 
ments. Now it seemed quite possible that the Saugrain issue was 
published as a whole at first, and proving unsaleable was _ after- 
wards issued in livraisons of 2 vols. per month; but it was not so, 
Mr. Richmond’s authority (Jowrn. Typ.) is quite accurate, for it is 
proved to be so by a reference to the Journal Général de la Littérature 
de la France, which not only gives from month to month, practically 
the same information as does the Journ. Typ., but definitely states on 
7 Nivése vii. (December 28, 1798) that Plassan would publish an 
18mo ed. of Buffon by Lacepéde, 2 vols. on the 1st of each month, 
beginning Floréal vii. (Ap. 20, 1799). The Journ. Général also 
announces the final volumes, xiv. “Quads.” and x. “ Poissons,” in 
Brumaire, xi. (October 1802). Probably Saugrain dated his volumes 
Van vii. because they were all printed and ready to issue by that year, 
but why Didot so dated his new title-pages is a mystery. Engelmann, 
Bibl. Hist. Nat. 1846, p. 322, refers to a separate issue of the “Tableaux” 
in 1802 in 18mo, Plassan; and among the bibliological treasures of 
Professor Newton is a unique copy of this, containing only the birds, 
which belonged to Fischer de Waldheim, and has his annotations 
throughout. It is repaged but otherwise identical with the correspond- 
ing part of the birds in vol. xiv. of the “Quads.” in the Didot Buffon. 
So much for the Didot Buffon, for much of the elucidation of 
which we must thank Mr. Richmond. Let us now consider the history 
of the “ Tableaux.” As stated in my previous letter, Lacepede read his 
paper on Mammals before the Institute on 21 Prairial An vii. (June 9, 
1799), and his paper on Birds 6 Fructidor An vi. (August 23, 1798), 
or nearly a year before. They were published together in the Mémoires 
de l'Institut, vol. iii, in 1801. They have been frequently quoted as 
1799, but no copy has ever been produced in support of the statement. 
I imagined I had found the 1799 issue in the Buffon, but Mr. Rich- 
mond has argued that I was mistaken. There was still another reter- 
- ence in Engelmann (p. 376) to an issue “in-4, Paris, An vii. (1799), 
Plassan (38 pages).” This tract I had searched for for years, and 
almost despaired of obtaining, when quite by chance I discovered its 
more exact title, made a fresh attempt, and after several months 
succeeded in securing a partly uncut copy. Here is the full title, 
“Discours | d’ouverture et de cloture | du cours | d’histoire naturelle | 
Donné dans le Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, | l’an vii de la 
République, | et | Tableaux meéthodiques | des mammiféres et des 
oiseaux, | par le C™ Lacepéde, | De l'Institut national de France [7 
lines of titles, etc.] | a Paris | chez Plassan, Imprimeur-Libraire. | 
Lian vii de la Republique. | —These “ Discours” occupy 55 pp., 
p. 56 is devoted to “Errata,” and then follows “Tableau des divisions, 

