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successful Tournefort had left any thing for Desfontaines and 
others to glean in the Levant? And yet the manuscripts 
and herbarium of this eminent naturalist, aided by the 
original drawings which we owe to the skilful pencil of his 
artist, M. Aubriet, all of which have been submitted unre- 
servedly to my examination, by the extreme kindness of M. 
Adrien de Jussieu, permit not a doubt to remain on this sub- 
ject. 
Among more recent collections, none are richer than those 
of Aucher Eloy, who died at Ispahan in 1838, a real martyr 
to science, after ten years of travels, which he pursued ex- 
Clusively in the region of which I have spoken. The prin- 
cipal portion of these, containing eminently the unique speci- 
mens, is deposited in the Museum, and has been arranged 
by M. Adolphe Brongniart; the remainder is diffused among 
_ Various Parisian and foreign herbaria; in Fra..ce, MM. De- 
lessert, and Webb (author of the Natural History of the Ca- 
nary Islands), M. Maille and myself, possess the chief part. 
Some idea may be gained of the discoveries made by this 
Intrepid traveller, by glancing at those volumes of De Can- 
_dolle’s Prodromus Systematis Universalis Regni Vegetabilis, 
Which have appeared since 1838. The widow of Aucher 
Eloy, whom I had the honour to visit at Constantinople, bas 
dly confided to me her husband’s various manuscripts ; 
‘mong which, his Journal of 1835, and that from 1837 to 
1838, are peculiarly valuable, on account of the variety of — 
servations which they comprise, on many subjects be- 
sides botany ; and if they cannot bear comparison as to 
literary execution with the Indian letters of Jacquemont, they 
possess an equal interest, owing to the painful trials and dif- 
cultes with which his laborious journeys were accompanied. 
tis my intention, with the permission of Madame Aucher 
| Eloy, to publish these journals separately, after I shall have | 
. Teduced them to proper order, and added some explanatory 
pon tanical notes, deduced from an examination of the plants 
. . ““emselves. [tis thus that I have been induced, instead of - 
.. "rely publishing those plants which I have myself gathered, 
