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M. Duvauccl sailed in 1817 for Bengal, where he met M.Diard, as 

 we have already mentioned. Besides their joint remittances, M. Du- 

 vaucel has made one from Sumatra, in which were many precious ob- 

 jects we had not been able to procure. To his collections were added 

 notes and interesting descriptions. He is at present at Chandernagor. 

 It was not till after MM. Diard t and Duvaucel had transmitted their 

 rich collections that government thought proper to reimburse a part of 

 their expenses, and to enable them to prosecute their researches. 



M.Plee sailed for St. Thomas in 1820, whence he proceeded to Mar- 

 tinique and to the United States. He has sent us three miscellaneous 

 collections. 



M. Savigny was ordered to Senegal in 1820, by the minister for 

 naval affairs, who had demanded from the administration of the Mu- 

 seum a person skilled in agriculture and botany: he is come back with 

 a considerable collection. 



M. Fontanier went first to the borders of the Black sea, whither he 

 was sent by the minister of the Interior. We have some reason to be- 

 lieve that he is now visiting mount Caucasus, his last communications 

 being dated from Teflis. 



N IV. 



CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MUSEUM. 



1. M. A. de Humboldt, named at his departure for America in 1798. 



We have spoken in the first part of this work of the services he 

 has rendered to the Museum. 



2. M. Bonpland, at present at Buenos-Ayres, named at the same time 



with M. de Humboldt; on his return from America he com- 

 menced the publication of the plants they had collected together 

 and given to the Museum. 



3. M. Baillon, at Abbeville, has enriched the zoological collection 



with the greater part of the birds of Europe, and especially the 

 water-fowls which he has particularly studied : he has also pre- 

 sented mammalia and fishes. His father, formerly a correspon- 

 dent of the king's garden, had sent a great number o/ objects 



