MUSEUMS. 



rate salary which these meritorious men receive is 

 not a sufficient requital for their services. Moreover, 

 the quantity of work which is required at their 

 hands too often prevents them from trying experi- 

 ments, which might probably prove of vast utility to 

 the establishments under their inspection. Should 

 this paper find its way across the water, and attract 

 the notice of our Gallic neighbours, who are full of 

 genius, and are remarkable for their perseverance, I 

 do not despair to see a great alteration for the better 

 at their magnificent establishment for natural his- 

 tory in the Jardin des Plantes^ on my next visit to 

 the French capital. 



THE END. 



London : 



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