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the new organisation a gallery lighted from above, 

 was ordered to be built on the second floor. 

 On its completion in 1801, the second floor was 

 found to contain twice as much room as the first, 

 as it had no windows on the sides, and comprised 

 the extent of the library. This cabinet, magnifi- 

 cently fitted up, at first appeared sufficient ; but 

 since 1 801, so great a number of objects had been 

 received, and so many quadrupeds furnished by 

 the menagerie, that further additions soon be- 

 came necessary. At the intimation of govern- 

 ment, a plan was submitted by the professors to 

 the minister of the interior, in December 1807, 

 which being adopted, and the necessary funds 

 assigned, three new galleries were added, by 

 prolonging those of the first and second floors, 

 as far as the terrace behind the labyrinth. The 

 principal door and the stair-case were placed at 

 the extremity of the edifice, and the entrance to 

 the garden from the street, between the library 

 and the building of the inlendance. 



These important works being terminated in 

 18 10, the interior arrangements were made with 

 such celerity, that the new saloons were occu- 

 pied in March 181 1: one of them was appro- 

 priated to rocks, and two others to volcanic 

 productions and fossils. The addition on the 

 second floor was devoted to the quadrupeds and 



