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MEMOIR OF DAUBENTON. 
Every one knows with what success the illustrious 
continuator of Buffon in the department of fishes and 
reptiles — -who was likewise the friend and colleague of 
Daubenton, and who still laments him along with our- 
selves — has united in his writings the double advantage 
of an ornate style, full of imagery, and a scrupulous 
accuracy in the details, and how he has equally well 
replaced both his predecessors. 
Daubenton so far forgot the little acts of injustice on 
the part of his old friend, that he afterwards contri- 
buted to many parts of the Natural History, although 
his name never appeared in connection with it ; and we 
possess proof, that Buffon consulted the manuscript of 
all his prelections in the College of France, when he 
wrote his History of Minerals. Their intimacy was 
even entirely re-established, and continued to the death 
of Buffon. 
During the eighteen years in which the early 4to 
volumes of the History of Quadrupeds were published, 
Daubenton could give only a small number of memoirs 
to the Academy of Sciences ; but he made up for this 
afterwards; and a great number from his pen exist, 
both in the collection of the Academy, and in those of 
the Societies of Medicine, Agriculture, and the National 
Institute. All of them, as well as the works he pub- 
lished separately, contain some interesting facts or some 
new views. 
To give the names of them alone would exceed the 
limits of an eloge ; and we shall content ourselves by 
