76 HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM. 



crease of land, and large additions to the collec- 

 tions ; of which all possible advantage was sub- 

 sequently taken. We have remarked that in 1788, 

 it was extended to the rue de Seine , by the ac- 

 quisition of the hotel de Magny ; the houses and 

 gardens towards the labyrinth, on the west, the 

 property of an individual named Leger, were 

 added in virtue of a resolution of the committee of 

 finance of the 10th of June 1795. The principal 

 building was reserved for the administra tion and a 

 part of the collections ; the others, which before 

 the revolution had been occupied by a religious 

 community called the New-Converts , were as- 

 signed for the lodgings of the professors. Towards 

 the east , a ?ast tenement belonging to the nation, 

 which had served for the administration of hack- 

 ney coaches, and had since been converted into 

 a warehouse for flour, was annexed by a law of 

 August in the same year. The buildings and courts 

 were destined for a green-house and a cabinet 

 of anatomy, which were begun after a plan of 

 M. Molinos , architect of the Museum : but the 

 work proceeded slowly from the causes already 

 mentioned ; the green-house was not finished 

 till five years after, and the gallery of anatomy 

 not before 181 7. 



It had long since been decreed that the land 

 situated to the east and north of the green-house 



