BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES } DUPETIT-THOUARS 8938 
On May = 1798, he landed, penniless, in Mauritius, where he 
spent two years re-mapping the island and investigating its Flora. 
isit 
Bourbon first. e, however, sent back to Jussieu the manuscript 
of his ‘‘ Genera Nova Madagascariensia”’ [infra, No. 6]. 
In Bourbon he spent three and a half years in re-mapping the 
island and ple its see — another year in Mauritius, 
which he employed in arr g his RR he sailed for 
France, landing at Rochefort Sept. 2nd, 1 
rrived, with his herbarium and this paren as his sole 
i h of what 
nique,”’ besides many minor ones, for the first six volumes ns (1804-8), 
when publication was suspended. In 1807 he was appointed ae 
of the Royal Nursery Grounds at Roule, witha salary of 3600 fra 
per annum, a post which he held till the abolition of the ‘edabialisnat 
in 1827, delivering annually a course of lectures on botany, which 
were but poorly attended—a fact of little wonder when the fragments 
of his lectures which survive are investigated. 
é had returned from his ieifels full of his goose as which 
he oats ee he had but to announce to mand instant 
attention and fame. Needless to say he was bitterly disappointed, 
and he spent much time and energy in bewailing his fate. 
after he had been made an Bees in 1820, he lamented the 
uc 
Rovai Gone ie Catal gue,” may be of some service 
n its compilation I have to acknowledge very kind assistance 
ay colleagues in the Printed Book De aoe | notably Mr. J. 
Macfarlane ; from Mr. W. Botting Hemsley, as regards copies of 
works at Kew; and from other friends. 
The letters between the number of pages and the size of the 
volume, in the various titles, indicate the London libraries in which 
copies occur: n = Natural History Museum; 8 = British Museum ; 
Gardens; r= Royal Society; ( ) = not as originally 
issued, but in one or other of the different gatherings. 
1. ‘ Dissertation sur l’Enchainement des tres.” Pp. 48. 
-8yo. Lille, 1788, 
eda, 
fad 
printed in the «“Méla nse &e., 1811 [infra, no. 8], where 
its history will be found in the ‘‘ Discours préliminaire”’ 
to that collection [pp. 8-11 1). 
