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him such enjoyment. The annexed publication will acquaint 
our readers with many of the details of his painful pilgri- 
mage, and they will prize him the more. His memory as a 
botanist, celebrated by the great Genevese Professor,* has no 
ingratitude to fear, and numerous Naturalists, following the 
example of De Candolle, are continually publishing his dis- 
coveries, Almost sim ultaneously with ourselves, M. Boissier, 
of Geneva, in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, is claiming 
for Aucher-Eloy the estimation he deserves, and a work 
which we have now in course of publication, assisted by M. 
Spach, and entitled, Jllustrationes Plantarum Orientalium, 
contains the signal additions which he had made subsequently 
to the time of Rauwolf, Tournefort and Labillardiére. If 
these efforts obtain the public favour, it is to Aucher-Eloy 
that we gladly accord the honour, for we merely collect those 
materials for a Flora of the East, which his imagination first 
contemplated, and which we have scarcely courage to carry 
out. A Botanist of the first order would be required to ac- 
complish such an enterprize, and let this be who it will, 
Aucher-Eloy ought not to be forgotten among those who laid 
the foundations. 
All that climate, sickness, and the cruelty of men, in an 
uncivilized country, can inflict of misery, was tasted by 
Aucher-Eloy. The overpowering heats of the day and the 
customary chills of the mountain nights, want of shelter, 
torture of insects, scanty food and destitution of water, or 
only such water as was impregnated with brackish and saline 
matter, these trials he endured for eight long years! We 
may wonder that his constitution should have held out for 
that time, but his existence was painful enough and acute rheu- 
matic attacks were among the lightest of his ills. His sight 
á R In the sixth volume of De Candolle’s Prodromus, a genus of Compo- 
ae 1S named Auchera, with the following note, which is a patent of 
Scientific nobility. “ Genus dicatum clarissimo Aucher-Eloy, botanico 
nsi, hujus et plurimarum aliarum stirpium detectori, qui botanices 
causa jam a pluribus annis orientales plagas proprio marte et vite periculo 
Peragrat.”” | : 
