£08 HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM. 



meditated plan. New hot-houses are to be com- 

 menced, as those in existence, besides being too 

 small, are imperfectly constructed, exact conti- 

 nual repairs, and are unworthy of the general 

 magnificence of the establishment (i). 



Buff on had obtained permission from the King 

 to send naturalists into foreign countries ; and 

 the travels of Commerson, Somerat, Dombey,and 

 Michaux, had procured considerable accessions 

 to the garden and the cabinet. Since the new 

 organisation, the two expeditions commanded by 

 capt. Baudin, had doubled the collections. At the 

 restoration the government continued the same 

 advantages, and ordered travellers to be sent into 

 regions little known, to examine their natural 

 productions. Considerable remittances have al- 

 ready been made from Calcutta and Sumatra, by 

 MM. Diart and Duvaucel ; from Pondicherry and 

 Chandernagor, by M. Leschenault ; from Brazil, 

 by M. St. Hilaire ; and from North America, by 

 M. Milbert. M. Lalande, who visited the Cape, 

 and penetrated to a considerable distance into the 

 country, has lately brought back the most nume- 

 rous zoological collection since that of Peron. 

 Other travellers without a special mission have 



(1) A fine collection of plants from India and Cayenne, received in 

 August 1821, necessitated an addition to that in the Botanic Garden ; 

 but this hasty structure can be considered only as a temporary resource. 



