206 MEMOIR 'OF DAUBENTON, 



Every one knows with what success the illustriocrg 

 continuator of Buffon in the department of fishes and 

 reptiles who*' was 'likewise the friend and colleague of 

 Daubenton, and who still laments him along with our- 

 selves has united in Ms writings the double advantage 

 of an ornate style, full of imagery, and a scrupulous 

 accuracy in the .details, and how he has -equally well 

 Teplaced bdth his predecessors. 



Daubenton so far* forgot the little a^ts^ of injustice on 

 the part of his old friend, that v fce afterwards contri- 

 buted to many parts of 'the Ndtural History , although 

 hre name *iever appeared in connection with it ; and we 

 possess proof, that Buffon consulted the manuscript t)f 

 all his prelections in the- College of France, when he 

 wrote his History of Minerals. Their intimacy was 

 even entirely re-established, and continued to the death 

 of Buffon. 



During the eighteen years in which the early ^to 

 volumes of the History of Quadrupeds were published, 

 Daubenton could give only a small*number of memoirs 

 to the Academy of Sciences ; but he made Alp for this 

 afterwards ; and a great number 'from his pen exist, 

 both in the collection of the Academy, and in those of 

 the Societies of Medicine, Agriculture, and. 1 the National 

 Institute. All of them, as well as the works he pub- 

 lished separately, contain some interesting facts or some 

 new views. 



To give the names of them alone would exceed the 

 limits of an eloge ; and we shall content ourselves by 



