THIRD AND LAST PERIOD. 



FROM THE DEATH OF BUFFON TO THE PRESENT TIME j 

 I788 TO l821. 



NEW ORGANISATION. 



At the death of Buffon, which happened on the 

 1 6th. of April 1788, the place of intendant of the 

 garden , was given, not to the count d'Angiviller 

 who had obtained the reversion, but to his bro- 

 ther, the marquis de la Billarderie. That noble- 

 man carried on the works begun by Buffon, and 

 constructed the small hot-house of the fico- 

 idecc. It was he who attached to the institution 

 the chevalier de la Marck, already celebrated for 

 his french Flora, by an appointment of botanist 

 of the cabinet, with the charge of the herba- 

 riums. His conciliating character rendered him 

 dear to the professors, and he neglected nothing 

 to promote the interest, and maintain the order of 

 the institution; but his credit was small, com- 

 pared with that of his predecessor. As the syste- 

 matic reduction of the public expenses was al- 



