One of the old gardens overlooked by it was called _de Jardin de la Croix_.

It was originally the first structure erected on the south side of the Jardin du Roi.
[38] In the "avertissement" to his _Systeme des Animaux sans Vertebres_ (1801), after stating that he had at his disposition the magnificent collection of invertebrate animals of the museum, he refers to his private collection as follows: "Et une autre assez riche que j'ai formee moi-meme par pres de trente annees de recherches," p.vii.Afterwards he formed another collection of shells named according to his system, and containing a part of the types described in his _Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertebres_ and in his minor articles.

This collection the government did not acquire, and it is now in the museum at Geneva.

The Paris museum, however, possesses a good many of the Lamarckian types, which are on exhibition (Perrier, _l.

c._, p.