67.
[20] He received no remuneration for this service.

As was afterwards stated in the National Archives, _Etat des personnes attachees au Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle a l'epoque du messidor an II de la Republique_, he "sent to this establishment seeds of rare plants, interesting minerals, and observations made during his travels in Holland, Germany, and in France.

He did not receive any compensation for this service." [21] "The illustrious Intendant of the Royal Garden and Cabinet had concentrated in his hands the most varied and extensive powers.

Not only did he hold, like his predecessors, the _personnel_ of the establishment entirely at his discretion, but he used the appropriations which were voted to him with a very great independence.

Thanks to the universal renown which he had acquired both in science and in literature, Buffon maintained with the men who succeeded one another in office relations which enabled him to do almost anything he liked at the Royal Garden." His manner to public men, as Condorcet said, was conciliatory and tactful, and to his subordinates he was modest and unpretending.
(Professor G.T.Hamy, _Les Derniers Jours du Jardin du Roi_, etc., p.