Paris and environs, with routes from London to Paris : handbook for travellers . Q cc<. JARBTN DES PLANTES. l^eft Bank 20. 335 uiaiu entrance to the Jardin des Plantes is on the W. side of PlaceValhubert. The Jardin des Plantes (PI. (j, R, 22, 25; F), 74 acres inarea, comprises the Jardin Botaniqne, the Menagerie, and theGaleries of collections, besides library, laboratories, and lecture-hall. It was founded in 1635 by Guy de La Brosse (1586-1641),physician to Louis XIII., simply as a Jardin des Ilerhes Medi-cinales. The famous Buffon (Georrjes Louis Leclerc, Comte deBuffon: 1707-88) was ap
Paris and environs, with routes from London to Paris : handbook for travellers . Q cc<. JARBTN DES PLANTES. l^eft Bank 20. 335 uiaiu entrance to the Jardin des Plantes is on the W. side of PlaceValhubert. The Jardin des Plantes (PI. (j, R, 22, 25; F), 74 acres inarea, comprises the Jardin Botaniqne, the Menagerie, and theGaleries of collections, besides library, laboratories, and lecture-hall. It was founded in 1635 by Guy de La Brosse (1586-1641),physician to Louis XIII., simply as a Jardin des Ilerhes Medi-cinales. The famous Buffon (Georrjes Louis Leclerc, Comte deBuffon: 1707-88) was appointed director of this Jardin du Hoiin 1739, and he extended its sphere by founding collections inevery department of natural history. In 1793 the royal menagerieswere transferred thither, and in 1794 the library also. The estab-lishment was then called Musemn dllisfoire Naturelle. Attachedii/ the Museum are now 18 professors and about 25 assistants.—Opposite the entrance a monument to Lamarck, the natuialist1714-1829), by Fagel, was erected in 1909. Jardin Botanique. This part of
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