228 DESCRIPTION OF THE MUSEUM. 



The space between the windows, at one end 

 of this saloon, is occupied by a beautiful collec- 

 tion of fungi in wax, presented to the Museum 

 by the Emperor of Austria, and at the other, by 

 models of foreign fruit admirably imitated in 

 wax or plaster. Leaves of the great fan palm, 

 corjpha umbrae alifer a , fifteen feet in diameter, 

 are attached to the ceiling. 



The last gallery, which is that of fruits, has 

 twenty glazed cabinets, eight on each side and 

 four at the ends, twelve of which contain fruits 

 dried, or preserved in spirits, arranged according 

 to de Jussieu's method (i), and the others, pro- 



that grow in the eastern provinces of Russia, presented by M.Fischer, 

 director of the botanic garden of Goreuki near Moscow, carefully 

 labelled with the names they bear in his descriptions and in 

 the printed catalogue. A herbal of three hundred plants from 

 the shores of the gulph of St. Lawrence, collected and preserved by 

 M.La Pyiaie ; one from Martinique, sent by M. A. Plee ; one from the 

 Philippines and Guyana, brought by M. Perrottet ; one from Caffraria 

 by M. Delalande; a number of beautiful plants from the Brazils, by 

 father Leandi'o di Sacramento ; in fine, the plants collected by 

 M. Gaudichaud in his voyage with captain Freycinet, which has been 

 given to the Museum, with all the other collections of natural history, 

 by the minister of marine. The most interesting of these plants will 

 be described and figured by M. Gaudichaud, in the relation of the 

 voyage about to be published by M. Freycinet. We expect this year 

 collections not less considerable from India, Senegal, Guyana, and the 

 Brazils. 



(i) The fruits of a given family are found in the same case, but the 

 species aud genera are not arranged in the order of their afEnity, as ti 

 was necessary to place the objects so that they might take up the leas* 

 room and be seen to the best advantage. 



