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globe) in offering Ihe Campanulacea, it was with thewordiog 

 « auctore Àlph. D. C. dilectissimo filio; — and when in 1844 

 Ihe 8lh volume of tlie « Prodromus » bad to be issued by ilic mour- 

 aing son solely, il was in ihe following words : ■ Memoriae sua- 

 vissimae parentis oplirai Alphonsus filius patria vestigia passa licet 

 non aequo persequutus pio animo dedicabat. a But Alphonse de 

 Candollc, whose irréparable loss science bas aow also to déplore, 

 bad already stepped youlhfully forward with bis first iodependent 

 essay in 1830, — a large monography, requiring years of spécial 

 previous research; and much earlier indeed he had aided his father 

 in annnal noies on rare plants of ihe botanic garden ot* Montpellier 

 where next month also Augustin Pyramus de Gandolle's memory 

 will be hononred at the triccntennial jubilee of that celebrated 

 university, ofwhich lie was during a séries of years in his spécia- 

 lises so great on ornament. De Candolle's « Prodomns » will for 

 ail time remain thechiefwork not only l'or ihe spécifie description 

 of ihe dicolyledonous plants of ihe whole earth, but also for the 

 detailed élaboration of the Candollean System ; and tins again in Us 

 main features must remain the scheme of classification for ail futn- 

 rity, — whereas the permanent systematic fixingofthe gênera in 

 their modem aspect and now vast accumulation lias fallen to the 

 share of two Britisk authors, George Bentham and Joseph Hooker. 

 Nearly twenty volumes appeared ofthis «Prodomns » with the 

 help of the best investigators of each period. Since 1878 this unique 

 work lias been followed by ten volumes of misccllaneous monogra- 

 phies of Phanerogams, for winch Alphonse de Candolle slill fur- 

 nished the Smilacinse, — copies of the volumes being successively 

 received by the writer of this necrologe from ihe aulhor's ow n 

 hands. To be actually a monographer of whole large orders ol 

 plants ihrough half a century stands as an unexampled leat in the 

 annalsof science. But lie had the further triumph, to see kis accom- 

 plished son, Casimir de Candolle, makc his grand début several 

 years earlier by already monographing the Piperacea for the 

 « Prodromus, » — that work throughout being wriltcn in Latin 

 for use of ail nations in ils originality. What endless information, 



