APPENDIX 



N° I. 



CHANGES 



M IDE IN THE MUSEUM DURING THE PUBLICATION OF THE PRESENT WORK. 



Having given some idea of the origin of the Museum, its actual state, 

 and the collections assembled in it, we may subjoin that it is becoming 

 richer every day, in consequence of its organization and the influence 

 it exercises on the progress of the natural sciences. It would be satis- 

 factory to present in proof of this assertion, a table of the riches it has 

 acquired since the period at which the publication of the present work 

 was commenced. But in casting our eye over what has passed during 

 this interval, we feel ourselves affected with sentiments of profound 

 grief; in the space of one' month, two of our most celebrated pro- 

 fessors have been taken from us. Their names will always constitute 

 the glory of the establishment, and the impetus they have given to 

 it will not be weakened ; but to their pupils there is yet no consolation 

 for their loss, and to their colleagues is recalled every day the charm of 

 their society. It is not for us to pronounce their eulogium, the aca- 

 demies of which they were members have already paid this tribute to 

 their memory ; to us belongs the duty of expressing our regret, and 

 adding a few words on the service,? rendered by them to the Museum. 



M.Van Spaendonck has fixed a limit to the art of flower painting, 

 which is not to be surpassed ; in his paintings we see nature herself ex- 

 pressed ; never in this style have the richness of composition, the beauty 

 of colouring, the exactness of detail been carried to such a pitch. Bufc 

 the works which for fifty years have established his reputation arc 

 not what most demand our gratitude. He was not less distinguished as 

 a professor than as a painter; and it is to the artists formed by him, 

 that we owe the elegance of the ornaments that constitute the supe* 



