4-0 HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM. 



must consider them under three points of view; 

 the buildings, the collections , and the instruction. 



The botanical garden was in the same state in 

 which it had been left by Tournefort. The ground 

 appropriated to the scientific arrangement of 

 plants was so inadequate to the object, that it 

 became necessary to cultivate them wherever a 

 vacant spot could be found; and as they were 

 thus distributed without regard to classification 

 or natural affinities , the professor was fre- 

 quently obliged to go from one extremity of the 

 garden to the other, to finish his lecture : the 

 soil also was exhausted, and the delicate plants 

 could be preserved only by the utmost care. 



Buffon, yielding to the reiterated instances of 

 M. de Jussieu , exposed the necessities of the 

 institution to the minister, the duke de la Yril- 

 liere; and obtained, in 1773 , the sum of 36,ooo 

 francs, for the formation of a new scientific 

 garden. The ground was prepared , and the 

 plants , taken up in the autumn with suitable 

 precautions, were transplanted at the end of 

 winter. M. de Jussieu took this occasion to 

 dispose them according to the new method , 

 of which his uncle Bernard had conceived 

 the idea, fifteen years before , in arranging 

 the garden at Trianon. The nomenclature of 

 Linnoeus was substituted for that of Tourne- 



