MEMOIR OP DATTBENTON. 
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Tanks and ages rendered to his ashes the testimony of 
their veneration. His remains were deposited in the 
Garden he had embellished, and which his virtues had 
honoured for sixty years ; and his tomb, according to 
the expression of an individual who does equal honour 
to the sciences and the senate, will render it an elysium, 
by adding the charms of sentiment to the beauties of 
Nature. Two of his colleagues have been the eloquent 
interpreters of the sorrow of all who knew him. Pardon 
me, if these painful feelings affect me at this moment, 
when I ought to be only the interpreter of the public 
gratitude, and if they carry me away from the ordinary 
tone of an academical eloge ; pardon him, I say, whom 
he honoured with his kindness, and whose master and 
benefactor he was. 
Madame Daubenton, whose agreeable works have 
made her name known in literature, and with whom he 
passed fifty years in happy union, brought him no 
children. 
His place in the Institute was filled by M. Pinel ; in 
the Museum of Natural History by M. Haiiy ; and I 
had the happiness to be chosen as his successor in the 
College of France. 
