SECOND PERIOD. ()I 



death of Buff on, and since several men of learn- 

 ing, animated with the same zeal, have been 

 charged with separate branches of the adminis- 

 tration, it must be avowed to his glory, that 

 without him the new organisation would not 

 have become necessary, nor probably the Museum 

 of natural history have been at this time in 

 existence. 



