OF LA PEROUSE. 



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On the 1 2th of March, 1796, we anchored 

 off the Ifle de Bas, and lliortly after I repaired 

 to Paris. 



I fooa learnt that my colledlions in Natural 

 Hiftory had been conveyed to England. The 

 French Government immediately claimed rhcm. 

 Sir Jofeph Banks, the Prefident of the Royal 

 Society of London, feconded this claim- with 

 all the energy that was to be expected from his 

 v/ell-knovvn love of the fciences ; and in a littlc 

 time afcer I had the happinefs, in receiving 

 them, to find myfelf enabled to make known 

 the natural produciiions, which I obfcrved in the 

 different countries that I viiited durinjj th:!r 

 courfe of this voyage. 



The bread-fruit trees, which 1 had entruiled' 

 to the gardener Lahaie, have been con\cyed to 

 the Ifle of France, v/ith fome others which that 

 gardener cultivated ; fome have been lent to 

 Cayenne, and others to Paris, where tliey have 

 been depofited in the hot-houfes of the Jar din 

 dei Planter. 



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