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KEEPER OF THE MENAGERIE • 



M. Cuvier (Frederic), born at Montbeliard in 1770 ; inspector of the 

 academy of Paris, named keeper of the Menagerie in i8o5. 



Natural history of mammalia, conjointly with M. Gedffroy Saint- 

 Hilaire, of which 4o numbers with 6 plates each have appeared ; Of 

 the Teeth of mammalia considered as zoological characters, 1 vol. 8°, 

 1822 ; several memoirs in the Annals of the Museum ; the Zoology of 

 mammalia in the Dictionary of natural sciences. 



KEEPERS OF THE GALLERIES OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



M. Lucas (John Francis), born in the king's garden in 1747 ; ap- 

 pointed to the place he now occupies at the new organization. 



M. Lucas (John Andrew Henry), son of the preceding, born at the 

 king's garden in 1780; associated with his father on the J2th of Fe- 

 bruary 1799. 



Methodical tables of mineral species, 2 vol. 8°, i8o6-i3; several 

 articles on mineralogy in Deterville's Dictionary of natural history. 



ADMINISTRATION. 



M. Thouin (James), born at Paris in 1751 ; secretary and cashier. 



MILITARY GUARD. 



The service of the establishment is confided to a company of non- 

 commissioned officers, at present under the command of M. Gouvion 

 Saint-Cyr. 



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TRAVELLING NATURALISTS. 



M. Leschenault de la Tour, attached as botanist to the expedition of 

 captain Baudin, resided some time in Java, whence he brought home 

 many specimens of zoology, and a considerable herbarium. Sent to 

 Pondicherry in 1817, he has traversed part of the peninsula of India, 

 and transmitted three collections in every branch of natural history : 

 the first, in 1818, contained the richest collection of fish -and Crustacea 

 ever received; the second in 1819, and the third in 1820, presented 



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