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“ing a collection himself. With this view he began to herborize, 
“and in the course of a few years sent to his friend a remittance of 
“ plants that was every way satisfactory. Having begun the study 
“in this manner, he formed for it a real love which remained with 
“him through life. As to Rafinesque, he was always poor and in 
“trouble, and in the last years of his life it came in Durand’s way to 
“afford him assistance. When Rafinesque died, his accumulations 
“fell into Mr. Durand’s hands; he selected such specimens as he 
“needed for his own herbarium, and then forwarded the parcels to 
“me. This was some twenty-five years ago, and my herbarium was 
“small. I well remember with what delight I received the huge 
“parcels, nearly a cart-load, of Rafinesque’s collection. As well as 
“TI can now recollect there remain in my herbarium but just two 
“specimens. A more worthless lot of dried sticks and leaves—it 
“would be wrong to call them specimens—it would be difficult to 
“imagine. If the stuff that came to me in any manner represented 
“that collected for Mr. Durand’s friend, I can well understand how 
“he must have felt it necessary to make some reparation.” 
Rafinesque was, neverthless. an eager observer, however slovenly 
a maker of what Schleiden spitefully calls herbarium hay. 
Mr. Durand collected very thoroughly in the neighborhood of 
Philadelphia, and was the ‘constant friend of all botanists who 
visited that city. Although he never said so directly, no doubt 
he did much to assist Nuttall. Nuttall was, by the way, a1 
eccentric botanist. Although they met so frequently at the 
Academy and elsewhere, and were, so to speak botanically inti- 
mate, yet Durand never knew how or where Nuttall lived. 
When Mr. Durand retired from business it was his desire to 
devote himself to botany, but at that time his eye-sight failed him 
to such a degree as to prevent him from close application to a 
study that requires correct observation. 
His principal contributions to botanical literature were: Plante 
Heermanniane in conjunction with Dr. Hilyard, this is an account 
of a collection made in South California; Plante Pratteniane 
Californice, an account of a collection made by Henry Pratten, 
Esq. These were published in the Journal of Botanical Science in 
1854 and 1855. The first of them was republished with additions 
in the 5th vol. of the Pacific R. R. surveys. In 1859 he published in 
the Journal of the Academy a Sketch of’ the Botany of the Basin 
of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. This was founded upon a collection 
made by a lady, Mrs. Carrington, a resident of Salt Lake City, and 
the plants deseribed in other memoirs were here enumerated so as to 
present a view of the botany of that region up to the time of the 
publication. Mr. Durand was also the author of a treaiise Sur les 
Vignes et les Vins des Etats Unis (published in France,] and of an 
enumeration of the plants collected in the Polar regions by Kane 
and Hayes. 
Although so long a resident of this country, Mr. Durand rémained 
a thorough Frenchman. It was the pride of his lite to have served 
under 7 Hmpereur, and when Napoleon’s nephew had medals dis- _ 
tributed to those who had served under his uncle there was nO — 
