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MEMOIR OF DAIIBENTON. 
he delivered some lectures there. He was received 
with the most lively enthusiasm every time he appeared ; 
every time his numerous auditory recognised in his ex- 
pressions the sentiments with which they were animated, 
and which they were delighted to see they shared with 
this venerable old man. 
This is the place to speak of some of his works, which 
are not so much intended to explain his discoveries, as 
to teach systematically some body of doctrine ; such are 
his articles for the two Encyclopaedias, particularly the 
Encyclopedie Methodique, for which he drew up dic- 
tionaries of quadrupeds, reptiles, and fishes ; his miner- 
alogical table, and lectures in the normal school. He 
has left the complete manuscript of those of the Veteri- 
nary School, of the College of France, and of the Mu- 
seum. It is to be hoped that the public will not be 
deprived of them. 
These didactic writings are remarkable for their great 
clearness, sound principles, and a scrupulous attention 
to avoid every thing that is doubtful ; only we are sur- 
prised to see, that the same individual who declaimed 
with such vigour against any kind of method in natu- 
ral history, should have finished by adopting methods 
which are neither better, nor perhaps so good as those 
he found fault with, as if he had been destined to prove, 
by his example, how far his earliest prepossessions were 
contrary to the nature of things and of man. 
Finally, besides all these works and lectures, Dau- 
benton had a share in editing the Journal des Savans; 
