ON A. LAURENT DE JUSSIEU. 73 



marked by the judicious and firm mind of the legislator of 

 Botany. 



The Restoration had found M. de Jussieu in the Council 

 of the University and at the School of Medicine. In 1815, 

 the Council of the University was superseded by that of 

 Public Instruction, and to this new council M. de Jussieu 

 was not summoned. In 1822, he was excluded from the 

 School of Medicine, in company with Vauquelin, Chaussierj 

 Pinel, Deyeux, Des Genettes, &c.; and in 1830, when this 

 injustice might have been repaired, Vauquelin, Chaussier, 

 and Pinel were dead, and M. de Jussieu himself having 

 attained to eighty-two years of age, was too old to resume 

 his place at the Faculty. In 1826, he resigned in favour 

 of his son, M. Adrien de Jussieu, his chair at the Museum; 

 and some years after, in 1831, he had the happiness to see 

 his son enter the Academy. 



Throughout his whole life, full occupation had been one 

 of his absolute necessaries, and when regular business allowed 

 him a little leisure, he devoted it to reading, arranging and 

 examining the plants in his cabinet. He had even a custom 

 of reading as he walked along the streets. By a peculiarity 

 of conformation in his eyes, which belonged to the whole 

 family, his sight had been always very short, and when he 

 was only in middle life, he wholly lost the use of one eye, 

 and towards the close of his long career, the other became 

 likewise so weak that he was unable either to write or make 

 observations. From this time, being debarred from working 

 himself, he sought to derive benefit from the labours of 

 others; and all the tender care that he had exhibited towards 

 his blind uncle Bernard, a still dearer individual then paid to 

 him. His friends proposed questions to him, that might 

 give employment to a mind, peculiarly adapted like that of 

 Bernard, for meditation and combination. He was duly 

 informed of all the new discoveries, and if aught among them 

 bore any connexion with his own ideas about Characters and 

 the Method, his botanical instinct, ever on the alert, was sure 

 to seize upon it; every thing was quickly defined in the 

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