ULYSSES ALDROVANDI. 35 



his day. Nor are these mere sounding words. 

 Much confirmatory of what we advance remains to 

 be, noticed as we proceed, and the utmost we 

 can say may be at once corroborated by a few ad- 

 ditional statements. Our Naturalist finally be- 

 queathed his vast store of scientific treasures to the 

 Senate of Bologna, and by this distinguished body 

 it was made the splendid foundation of the great 

 public Museum of that city, where many of the 

 preparations remain to this day. And not less to 

 the point the vast collection of paintings which 

 Aldrovandi accumulated were thought worthy, so 

 late as during the splendid but despotic rule of 

 Napoleon, of being removed from the venerable 

 nails they had for centuries graced, to Paris, where 

 they were deposited in the Museum of the Jardin 

 des Plantes. At the peace of 1814, right and jus- 

 tice resumed their sway; when these remarkable 

 works would, we presume, be restored to their ap- 

 propriate place, under the custody of the citizens of 

 Bologna. To this we may add, that the prodigious 

 mass of valuable manuscripts which our Naturalist 

 left behind him were preserved, and are still to be 

 seen, in the Public Library of his native city. 

 Among these would probably be found his corre- 

 spondence with the most illustrious men of his day ; 

 but we have not been able to detect a single trace 

 of these most interesting memorials in any of the 

 accounts of this distinguished man which have yet 

 been given to the world. 



In fact, we desiderate nothing more in the meagre 



