224 Professor Miiller on the Life and Writings of 



veterinary medicine, and is rendered extremely valuable by the 

 many interesting observations emanating from the meeting of 

 so richly informed an individual with the first scientific men of 

 Germany, Holland, and France. Of all his writings, these 

 contributions to anthropology, general natural history,, and 

 physiology, are the most calculated to convey a just impression 

 of his character to those who were not personally acquainted 

 with Rudolphi. Who could help admiring that man, whose 

 sound judgment was so conspicuous, — whose unfettered, open, 

 and straight-forward mind was wholly devoted to the investi- 

 gation of realities, — and who always guarded against that un- 

 productive and fanciful tendency which he sometimes encoun- 

 tered. How mild and yet how correct are his opinions ; how 

 interesting are his remarks on the medical men and institutions 

 of Berlin at that period ; and how attractive are the accounts 

 of his meetings with Brugmans, Cuvier, Tenon, Richard, Gall, 

 and lastly the extraordinary Beireis, whose delineation as given 

 by our author was not less interesting than that given by 

 Goethe. Rudolphi's work contains such extended notices of 

 what he had seen, that it is still a valuable assistance in making 

 use of foreign establishments. 



That Rudolphi's knowledge of botany was varied and exten- 

 sive, is proved by his scattered observations made during this 

 journey, by his various essays, and especially by his Anatomy 

 of Plants, published in 1S07. On this subject it is better that 

 my colleague Professor Link should speak than myself, and he 

 has kindly communicated the following notice of Rudolphi's 

 botanical studies. 



Rudolphi was attracted to the subject of botany by Weigel 

 of Greifswald, and he combined that science with the studv of 

 anatomy in the same manner as Haller, whose example had also 

 in other respects great influence over him. He collected with 

 diligence, observed in the garden at Greifswald, obtained by mer- 

 cantile connection plants from Barcelona, and received plants 

 from Lisbon from a friend. The OrnitJwgaliim Rudolphii of the 

 Greifswald garden still retains his name. His descriptions of 

 plants appeared in Schrader's journal. Willdenow named after 

 him a genus of plants belonging to the natural order Legumino- 

 soe, and we still possess it in our garden. Sprengel directed his 



