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of Ispahan ; and from this capital of Persia, he re-ascended 
towards Teheran, and by Sultanieh, proceeded to Tebriz, 
where his journal stops. Letters addressed to M. Naudin, 
inform us that Aucher-Eloy arrived at Trebisond, crippled by 
fever, and suffering under a severe ophthalmic attack, and 
that he took shipping from that place to Constantinople. 
Hardly had he recovered from his fatigue, when a new 
misfortune befell him, for, in March, 1836, the house which 
he inhabited at the Fanar, was consumed in one of those 
conflagrations so common in Constantinople, by which dis- 
aster he lost his library, a large quantity of Arabic and 
Persian manuscripts which he had contrived to get together, 
and his entire collection of insects, consisting of upwards of 
fifty thousand specimens, on the sale of which he had counted 
as raising some funds for his following journeys.  Fortu- 
nately, his plants had been conveyed to Therapia, and 
escaped destruction. 
Undaunted by these adverse circumstances, he proceeded 
to fulfil a plan he had long entertained of exploring Greece 
and the coasts of Turkey in Europe, and a few months 
enabled him to visit the most interesting parts of these 
countries. After having landed anew at Smyrna and Chios, 
visited in succession Syria, Athens, the Isle of Euboea, 
Thessaly, and Mount Athos, and returning in mid-autumn, 
he joined his wife and daughter, who were settled in the 
family of M. Crespin, a merchant, of French origin, living at 
Broussa, While at the latter place, he herborized for a 
fourth time, on Mount Olympus, in Bithynia. 
Here he had the deep grief to learn the death of M. Coque- 
bert de Montbret, which took place at Paris, in July, 1836, just 
as this friend was about to publish a portion of their common 
urs. Many atime had M. de Montbret aided Aucher- 
Eloy With his purse, and his earnest efforts on his behalf in 
had served him no less. ME 
* desire to revisit Persia seized on our botanist so soon 
as he was again in Therapia. It was all in vain that M. 
Adolphe Brongniart wrote to him, urging delay, till he might 
