COLLECTION OF ARTICULATED ANIMALS. 4^^ 



minier, Milbert, Lapillaye and Dorbigny, our 

 collection has attained such a degree of superio- 

 rity, that in respect of exotic species there are 

 few in Europe to be compared with it. 



What gives a great value to this collection, 

 and renders it essentially classical is, that not 

 only all the species are referred to their genera, 

 but that they are all named with precision. 

 M. Latreille, who has taken this task upon him- 

 self, has in the distribution of the families and 

 genera followed the order established by M. do 

 Lamark in his system of animals without verte- 

 brae; and the different objects have been ar- 

 ranged, so as to shew their characters and to 

 preserve their forms, by M. Dufresne, the chief 

 of the zoological department. 



We shall now examine the different parts, 

 following the order we have indicated. 



On entering the gallery of the birds by the 

 small staircase, we must turn to the right to 

 reach the saloon of the carnivorous quadrupeds. 

 The crustaceous animals are placed vertically in 

 the upper part of the cases which stand in the 

 middle of the room. The collection is composed 

 of about six hundred species belonging to fifty- 

 four genera ; and we may venture to assert, that 

 there does not exist another so complete, parti- 

 cularly since M. Lcschenault has enriched it by 



