APPENDIX. 589 



1789 ; numerous memoirs in the Transactions of the academy of 

 sciences and in the Annals of the Museum, amongst the latter are to 

 be found the characters of many natural families and the monogrophies 

 of several others ; many articles in the Dictionary of natural sciences, 

 of which he is one of the principal conductors. 



AGRICULTURE. 



Professor. — M. Thouin (Andrew J, born in the king's garden in 1747 ; 

 named chief gardener in 1768, member of the academy of sciences in 

 1786. professor of agriculture at the Museum since the creation of the 

 chair at the new organization. 



His numerous writings, all relative to the principles or practice of 

 agriculture, are inserted in the Memoirs of the academy of sciences of 

 the institute and of the society of agriculture, in the Dictionary of na- 

 tural history, printed by Deterville, in the new edition of Rozier's 

 Course of, agriculture, and in the Annals of the Museum ; in which he 

 has given a description of the garden of seeds, of that of agriculture, 

 that of fruit-trees, etc. He has published separately a treatise on grafts, 

 1 vol 4°, Paris, 1820. The manuscript syllabus of his lectures are ex- 

 posed in the library of the Museum, with permission to copy them. 



Assistant. — M. Leclerc (Oscar), born at Paris in 1798 ; attached to the 

 Museum in 1818. 



Chief Gardener. — M. Thouin (John), brother to the professor, born at 

 the king's garden in 1756. 



• ZOOLOGY. 



Mammiferous Animals and Birds. 



Professor. — M. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (Stephen), born at Etampes, 

 in 1772 ; member of the institute 1807, professor of the faculty of sciences 

 of the univei'sity, professor of the Museum at the new organization. 



Anatomical philosophy, 2 vol. 8°, 1818-22; a great number of me- 

 moirs on zoology and comparative anatomy in the Transactions of the 

 institute and of the academy of sciences, in the Annals of the Museum, 

 and in the Description of Egypt. 



Assistant for the Preparation of Animals. — M. Delalande, who has 

 made several voyages and added considerably to the riches of the 

 Museum. 



