22 LAMARCK, HIS LIFE AND WORK 
But the favor of Buffon, powerful as his influence 
was,* together with the aid of the minister, did not 
avail to give Lamarck a permanent salaried position. 
Soon after his return from his travels, however, M. 
d’Angiviller, the successor of Buffon as Intendant of 
the Royal Garden, who was related to Lamarck’s 
family, created for him the position of keeper of the 
herbarium of the Royal Garden, with the paltry salary 
Of 1,000"trancs.) 
According to the same Etat, Lamarck had now been 
attached to the Royal Garden five years. In 1789 he 
received as salary only 1,000 livres or francs; in 1792 
it was raised to the sum of 1,800 livres. 
séum National ad’ Histoire Naturelle a Vepoque du messidor an Il de la 
Republique, he *‘ sent to this establishment seeds of rare plants, inter- 
esting minerals, and observations made during his travels in Holland, 
Germany, and in France. He did not receive any compensation for 
this service.” 
*««'The illustrious Intendant of the Royal Gardenand Cabinet had 
concentrated in his hands the most varied and extensive powers. Not 
only did he hold, like his predecessors, the fersonne/ of the establish- 
ment entirely at his discretion, but he used the appropriations which 
were voted to him with a very great independence. ‘Thanks to the 
universal renown which he had acquired both in science and in litera- 
ture, Buffon maintained with the men who succeeded one another in 
office relations which enabled him to do almost anything he liked at 
the Royal Garden.” Tis manner to public men, as Condorcet said, was 
conciliatory and tactful, and to his subordinates he was modest and 
unpretending. (Professor G. T. Hamy, Les Dernters Jours du Far- 
din du Roi, etc., p. 3.) Buffon, after nearly fifty years of service as In- 
tendant, died April 16, 1788. 
