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menced in 1835, forming two volumes in each year, and are now 

 in their sixtieth A^olume. 



The greater number, however, of the Natural-History papers of 

 the Prench Academicians, especially during the first half of the 

 present century, appeared in the several series issued under the 

 authority of the Jardin des Planted, which it' were much to be 

 wished were more actively continued, as the receptacle for all im- 

 portant memoirs on these subjects requiring quarto illustrations. 

 The first of these series, entitled Annales du Museum National 

 d'Histoire Naturelle par les Professeurs de cet etablissement, 

 was in twenty volumes, quarto, with numerous plates, 1802 to 1813, 

 the epithet National being dropped witli the sixth volume, 

 1805, never to be resumed by the editing Professors, who have 

 even disdained the adjuncts of Poyal or Imperial. The second 

 series, also in twenty volumes, appeared as Memoires du Museum 

 d'Histoire Naturelle par les Professeurs de cet etablissement, 

 extended from 1815 to 1832, siiice when a third series, entitled 

 Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle par les Professeurs- 

 Administrateurs de cet etablisseiuent, has been dragging on its 

 broken life through nine volumes and a half in thirty years, none 

 having appeared since the second part qf the tenth volume in 

 1861. These fifty volumes include Mineralogy and Greology, but 

 comprise also in Zoology and Botany many of the most important 

 contributions of the most eminent Preuch naturalists, especially 

 systematic and structural, with a few physiological ones ; and the 

 illustrations, especially some of those of the Archives, as for in- 

 stance Adrien de Jussieu's Malpighiacese, may well be given as 

 models in point of design and execution. 



A Natural-History Society appears to have existed in Paris 

 from the year 1770, although perhaps never regularly constituted 

 till 1788 ; and the first publication was not till 1792, when a thin 

 folio was issued entitled Actes de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle 

 de Paris. Stopped for a time by the political convulsions of the 

 day, it made another attempt in the an vii. (1799), and pro- 

 duced a thin quarto under the title of Memoires de la Societe 

 d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, and was again silent until 1823, 

 when, ignoring the former volume, and without any indication of 

 its being a new series, it began again with a first volume with the 

 same title of Memoires de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de 

 Paris, and carried it on to the fifth volume in 1834, when it appears 

 to have expired. These volumes contain, besides geological, pa> 

 laeontological, chemical and other contributions, a few entomolo- 



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