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now stands in mourning, and amongst them the nearniost is his aged 

 wife, who with never-tiring love shared with him good and evil, joy 

 and sorrow, and who was his firm support through the trial-times of 

 age as she had been through those of manhood. 



" But outside there is seen a wider circle of all the toilers and all 

 the friends of Swedish science, who in this old man that has gone 

 forth had learnt to honour, not merely their Nestor, but one who was 

 great in the land of science, one who by his discoveries and 

 researches had mightily brought knowledge on its way, to the honour 

 of his country, to the profit of mankind. 



" And without doubt our tokens of mourning and of homage 



are shared by many friends of research in other lands. For the 



name of Sven Loven belongs to those that have gone out over the 



world, and his memory will live as long as Science tells her story to 



the generations that are to come." 



F. A. Bather. 



HENRI ERNEST BAILLON. 



Born 1827. Died 1895. 



LIKE other botanists of repute of the generation now rapidly 

 leaving us, Baillon began his professional life as a medical man, 

 his career as a student having been exceptionally brilliant. In 1863, 

 however, he was appointed Professor of Botany at the Kcole de 

 Medecine, and occupied the chair until his sad and sudden death last 

 July. He was also president of the Paris Linnean Society, which he 

 helped to found in 1866. He was a foreign member of our Royal 

 and Linnean Societies, but, owing to an unfortunate quarrel with 

 those in power in his own country, did not there meet with those 

 marks of recognition which, as one of the first botanists of his day, 

 he had fully earned. 



Baillon was a voluminous author. Works like the " Histoire 

 des Plantes " and the " Dictionnaire de Botanique " will be a lasting 

 testimonial to his wonderful energy and power of sustained effort. 

 The former, begun in 1867, was only interrupted by his death, when 

 it had reached vol. xiii., and was nearly finished. It forms one of the 

 best accounts of the families and genera of the plant world, and the 

 many well-executed illustrations are not the least valuable part. The 

 " Dictionary of Botany," occupying four quarto volumes, appeared 

 between 1876 and 1892 ; many of the articles were contributed by the 

 editor. For nearly twenty years (1860-79) he produced (it was 

 nearly all written by himself) the periodical known as Adansonia. 

 The volumes, of which there are twelve, came out at irregular 

 intervals, and represent a large amount of original work in morphology 

 and systematic botany. He started the Bulletin Mensuel of the 

 Linnean Society of Paris in 1874, and continued to prepare it during 

 the rest of his life. Here, again, a great number of the original 

 communications are from his own pen ; it is especially rich in his 



