22 LAMARCK, HIS LIFE AND WORK 



But the favor of Buffon, powerful as his influence 

 was,* together with the aid of the minister, did not 

 avail to give Lamarck a permanent salaried position. 

 Soon after his return from his travels, however, M. 

 d'Angiviller, the successor of Buflon as Intendant of 

 the Royal Garden, who was related to Lamarck's 

 family, created for him the position of keeper of the 

 herbarium of the Royal Garden, with the paltry salary 

 of i,ooo francs. 



According to the same Etat, Lamarck had now been 

 attached to the Royal Garden five years. In 1789 he 

 received as salary only 1,000 livres or francs; in 1792 

 it was raised to the sum of 1,800 livres. 



s^um National d* Ilistoire Naturclle a Vefoque du messidor an II de la 

 Repullique, he " sent to this establishment seeds of rare plants, inter- 

 esting minerals, and observations made during his travels in Holland, 

 Germany, and in France. He did not receive any compensation for 

 this service." 



* " The illustrious Intendant of the Royal Garden and Cabinet had 

 concentrated in his hands the most varied and extensive powers. Not 

 only did he hold, like his predecessors, the personnel of the establish- 

 ment entirely at his discretion, but he used the appropriations which 

 were voted to him with a very great independence. Thanks to the 

 universal renown which he had acquired both in science and in litera- 

 ture, Buffon maintained with the men who succeeded one another in 

 ofiRce relations which enabled him to do almost anything he liked at 

 the Royal Garden." His manner to public men, as Condorcet said, was 

 conciliatory and tactful, and to his subordinates he was modest and 

 unpretending. (Professor G. T. Hamy, Les Derniers Jours du jfar- 

 din du Roi, etc., p. 3.) Buflon, after nearly fifty years of service as In- 

 tendant, died April 16, 1788. 



