3« Année. N° 26 15 Octobre 1893. 



LE MONDE DES PLANTES 



REVUE ILLUSTRÉE ET BI-MENSUELLE DE BOTANIQUE 



The late Alphonse de Candolle 



At the May-meeting of the Field-Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 

 Baron F. von Mueller, K. G. M. G., referred to the death of the 

 above distinguished botanist in the following words : — 



Mu. Président, Ladies and Gentlemen, — A great man of 

 science bas passed away, Alphonse de Candolle, at Genève on the 

 4tb of April ! He soon followed Richard Owen, and thus organic 

 natural history in each of its main-divisions lost highly prominent 

 leaders. Both became almost nonagenarians, and bolh maintened 

 their grand mental faculties unimpaired to the last. Alphonse de 

 Candolle' s genius arose under unsurpassed advantages. In bis illus- 

 trions parent, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, centred the highest 

 achievements within the science of plants as a whole during the 

 earlier part of this century. Even a grandsire of the elder De Can- 

 dolle bad at the time of Ray and Tournefort as an amateur rendered 

 that name, subsequently so illustrions, already known in botanic 

 science: — thus, — like in the genealogy of the Jussieus, the 

 Gmelins, the Darwins, the Hookers, — also the Genève great 

 dynasty of phylologists bas passed through several générations, so 

 that at the solemn centennial célébration of the Linnean Soeiety 

 one of the two first medals, tben bestowed on Alphonse de Candolle 

 by that vénérable union of zoologists and botanists, could be 

 received for him by a grandson as bis personal représentative. 

 Great menwith thefeelings of Augustin and Alphonse de Candolle 

 deserve such proud gratification with hopes so cheering for the 

 future! When in 1839 the originator of their worldwide family- 

 fame introduced the next heir of his renown to the empire of science 

 (in the 7th volume of his universal description of the plants of the 

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