184 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF AUCHER-ELOY. 
enabled him to draw up ; while to M. Jouannin, Interpreting 
Secretary to the King, we owe several useful explanations. 
As for the botanical notes, their only value will be in help- 
ing to collate some of the plants mentioned in the text, with 
the specimens in the collections. The numbers which we 
have given, correspond (for the journeys previous to 1839), 
with Aucher-Eloy's first general catalogue ; and for the last 
expeditions, to the numbers in the tickets at the Museum. 
There has not been time enough to seek out all the plants, 
or identify all their names; we have sometimes suggested 
our doubts, but shall endeavour to clear them up fully in the 
successive livraisons of our “ Illustrationes Plantarum Orien- 
talium.* 
Lastly, a good map, containing the tracks, laid out with | 
accuracy, was an indispensible appendage to a work of this - 
kind, and such an one M. Fauchet, draughtsman at the 
Office of Public Works, has ably executed under our super- 
intendence. We have availed ourselves of some advice from 
Colonel Lapie, who is engaged at this very time in preparing 
a complete map of Turkey and Persia, of the most elaborate 
description, which is to contain the routes of all travelling 
botanists, from the fourteenth century to the present day, 
and which will be annexed to our Jilustrationes Plantarum 
Orientalium. Here also the course of Aucher-Eloy will be 
again laid down, M. Lapie having made use of it to cor- 
rect some previously ill-defined routes and several geogra- 
phical points that had been doubtful. We have been careful 
to insert, in both maps, every thing that we had ascertained 
as to the elevations above the level of the sea, taken baro- 
metrically and otherwise. 
Such is the tribute we have paid to the memory of Aucher- 
Eloy. Our most earnest desire is that it may afford some 
consolation to his surviving relations, and call the benevo- 
lent attention of government to his family. Surely we may 
hope that since it was not granted to Aucher-Eloy himself to 
* Noticed in the precending No. of our Journal, and also more fully in 
an earlier volume, —Ebp. 
