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accuracy of the remarks that are appended ; all pointing out, 
not only an exact and conscientious collector, but an accom- 
plished Naturalist. "Though almost destitute of books and 
obliged to trust his own memory and judgment in the 
hurried determination of bis plants, most of his: new species 
have received the sanction of the first masters in Botanical 
Science. He had even entertained a plan for publishing a 
systematic Flora of the East, and no one could be better 
prepared than himself for the execution of this gigantic 
enterprize, but the work was necessarily postponed till the 
return to France should supply him with those indispensible 
means of information and objects of comparison which this 
country affords. 
His plants are dispersed in numerous herbaria, public and 
private, both in France and among foreigners. Some idea 
of the amount of his specimens may be derived from the 
following note, extracted from the account kept by M. 
Adolphe Brongniart, of those collections alone which have 
passed through his hands. 
The first envoi, comprizing the years between 1830 and 
1836, has been distributed as follows: 
Hooker . . 2,600 sp. Shuttleworth . . 1,241 sp. 
Boissier . . . .9,247 ,, Moricand . . . . 1,080 ,, 
That 47 ov 1,826 , British Museum . 875 ,, 
Filing ; 4. 1491, Jubet . . . . 9005 
The second, which we were enabled to examine in Con- 
stantinople, in the year 1839, when Mme. Aucher and her 
daughter were earnestly occupied in putting the whole in 
order, has since been thus divided : 
Species. Species. 
The Paris Museum, B. Delessert . . . 1,650 
containing all the Maule 4 ;  — IP93 
Unique specimens. 1,800 Hooker . . . . + x dd 
M.Webb-. ; -; 1,699 Bossier . . - s. L4sI 
