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after whom Adonniera was named. I found him 
in his garden with Messrs. Thouin, Dombey, 
and other botanists. His herbarium is said to 
be uncommonly valuable.” 
St. Germain-en-laye. 
MareEcHAL DE NoaiLies.—“ From Versailles we 
passed by Marli to St. Germain-en-laye, and 
slept at the house of the venerable Marechal de 
Noailles, the old friend and correspondent of 
Linneus. Since my being there, the Marechal 
has decorated it with a monument to Linneus, 
and has celebrated a jubilee in his honour.” 
Paris. 
D’AuBenton.—* With Mr. D’Aubenton [had often 
an opportunity of conversing, and always with 
pleasure and advantage.” 
Dre ta CepeDE, who has published an able work 
on Reptiles, was also very frequently at the 
cabinet during my visits there.” 
“ ApANSsON, whose knowledge of botany would 
procure him great reputation, were he less a 
slave to paradox and pedantry. He generally 
accosted me with some attack on Linnezus, 
sometimes calling him grossly zgnorant and 
literate ; and then when I have ventured to 
quote Philosophia Botanica, as a proof of the 
contrary, abusing him as scholastic, I was con- 
tented with smiling, to think how one accu- 
sation destroyed the other.” 
A.L. DE Jussteu.—* M. Antoine Laurent de Jussieu 
