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he delivered some lectures there. He was received* 

 with the most lively enthusiasm every time he appeared ; 

 every time his numerous auditory recognised in his ex- 

 pressions the sentiments with which they were animated, 

 and which they were delighted to see they shared with 

 this venerable old man. 



This is the place to speabof some of his works, wkich 

 are not so much intended to explain, his discoveries, as 

 to teach systematically some body of doctrine ; such are 

 his articles for the two Encyclopaedias, particularly the 

 Encyclopedie Methodique^ for which he drew up dic- 

 tionaries of quadrupeds, reptiles, and fishes*; his miner- 

 alogieal table, andJ lectures- in the normal: school. He 

 has left the complete- manuscript of those of the Vsteri* 

 nary School, of the College of France, and of the Mu- 

 seum. It is to be hoped that the public will not be 

 deprived of them. 



These didactic writings^ are remarkable for their great 

 clearness, sound principles, and a scrupulous attention- 

 to avoid every thing that is doubtful ; only we are sur- 

 prised to* see, that the same individual who declaimed 

 with such vigour against any kind of method in natu- 

 ral history, should have finished by adopting methods 

 which are neither better, nor perhaps so good as those 

 he found fault with, as if he had been destined to- prove, 

 by his example, how far his earliest -prepossessions were 

 contrary to the nature of things and of man. 



Finally, besides aft these works- and lectures, Dau- 

 benton had a share fai editing, the Jour-nal des&avans; 



