And even his own article seems not to have been printed.

Before the eleventh volume appeared, terrible storms had arisen, not a few of the shipmen had parted company, and Buffon may well have been one of them.

Certainly the article on Nature, as it stands, can hardly be his.
In the supplementary volumes, which appeared in 1776--ten years after the completion of the original undertaking--two new labourers came into the vineyard, whose names add fresh lustre and give still more serious value to the work.

One of these was the prince of the physiologists of the eighteenth century, the great Haller, who contributed an elaborate history of those who had been his predecessors in unfolding the intricate mechanism of the human frame, and analysing its marvels of complex function.

The other was the austere and generous Condorcet.