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The third section provides for the formation 

 of a library, where all the books on natural his- 

 tory in the public repositories, and the duplicates 

 of those in the national library, shall be assem- 

 bled ; and also the drawings of plants and ani- 

 mals, taken from nature in the Museum. The 

 fourth clause insists on a correspondance with all 

 similar institutions in France. 



By this decree , twelve chairs were establish- 

 ed , without naming the professors ; the distri- 

 bution of their functions being left to the offi- 

 cers themselves. These officers were : 



MM. Daubenton , keeper of the cabinet , and 

 professor of mineralogy at the college of France; 



Fourcroy, professor of chemistry ; 



Brongniart, demonstrator ; 



Desfontaines, professor of botany; 



De Jussieu , demonstrator ; 



Portal , professor of anatomy ; 



Mertrud, demonstrator; 



Lamarck, botanist of the cabinet, with the 

 care of 'the herbarium ; 



Faujas Saint-Fond , assistant keeper of the ca- 

 binet , and corresponding secretary ; 



Geoffroy, sub - demonstrator of the cabinet ; 



Vanspaendonck , painter ; 



Thouin , first gardener. 



No difficulty occurred respecting those officers, 



