36 HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM. 



the attacks of his colleague, nor jealous of his 

 reputation; he acknowledged the superiority of 

 the new theory, though he had not time to study 

 it sufficiently for the purpose of instruction , 

 and in 1770, when his advanced age obliged 

 him to discontinue his lectures , he desired to be 

 replaced by Macquer, a pupil of Rouelle. 



During the first years of his residence in the 

 garden , Buffon was unfortunate enough to lose 

 several of the professors whom he had found 

 there on his arrival. Sensible of their services, 

 which ought never to be forgotten, he endea- 

 voured to replace them by men capable of im- 

 parting new lustre to the establishment. Science 

 having been deprived of Hunaud in the same 

 year with Boulduc , his place was bestowed 

 upon Winslow, the most celebrated anatomist 

 in Europe. 



Winslow had long lectured for Duverney, of 

 whom he ought to have been the immediate suc- 

 cessor, and though seventy four years of age , he 

 resumed his functions with the zeal of youth. 

 He was happy amid a circle of pupils , who 

 heard him with the respect due to his age, and 

 the admiration excited by his genius; but after 

 eight years of laborious exertion , feeling the 

 want of repose, he demanded an assistant, and 

 the reversion of his place was given to Ferrein , 



