BARON CUVIEil. 18o 



allowed him an annual pension, and from that 

 moment no bounds were set to his zeal j painters 

 and engravers were employed, and the work was 

 far advanced, when he received intelhgence, that 

 the Spaniards who had accompanied Dombey 

 demanded of the French government that his 

 botany should not be published before theirs, 

 and, consequently, that the herbarium should be 

 restored to Dombey. The order for this restor- 

 ation was expected the next day, when L'Heri- 

 tier, consulting only his friend, M. Broussonet, 

 sent for twenty or thirty packers, and the night 

 was passed in making cases. L'Heritier, his 

 wife, and MM. Broussonet and Redoute, packed 

 the herbarium : early the next morning the 

 former posted off to Calais with his treasure, nor 

 rested till he was safe on the English soil. He 

 passed fifteen months there in the most per- 

 fect retirement, and was delighted with the kind- 

 ness he received. The library and collections 

 of Sir Joseph Banks, the herbarium of Linnaeus, 

 then in the possession of Sir J. E. Smith, besides 

 the acquisitions of other botanists, were all open 

 to him, and he there finished his manuscript. 

 The plates were most of them completed when 

 he returned to France ; but political circum- 

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