THIRD PERIOD. l3l 



Museum contains 79. The galleries of natural 

 history have been raised one story, and nearly 

 doubled in length ; and a library of more than 

 12,000 volumes has been added to the establish- 

 ment. Two hot-houses, a large green-house, 

 the rotundo in the centre of the menagerie, and 

 the lodge of the carnivorous beasts, have been 

 Constructed : two buildings connected with the 

 establishment have been converted, the one into 

 botanical galleries, a zoological laboratory, and 

 a hall of administration, the other, into a cabinet 

 of comparative anatomy and an anatomical labo- 

 ratory ; and additional dwellings have been ac- 

 quired for the professors, assistant naturalists, etc. : 

 the buildings at present are to those of the for- 

 mer period in the proportion of 7 to 1. 



The botanical garden has been augmented 

 one-third ; those of agriculture, fruit-trees, and 

 economical plants, and several parterres, have 

 been formed ; the grounds have been more richly 

 adorned with shrubs and flowers, and the mena- 

 gerie has been planted with trees yielding seed 

 for the propagation of useful species : the extent 

 of the culture is as 9 to 1 . 



Of the collections, that of living plants has been 

 doubled ; that in the herbarium is six times as 

 great ; and that of fruits and other productions of 

 the vegetable kingdom has increased in the same 



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