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D'Orbijjny, wlio was then busy on his great Dictionary, which had 

 then reached to the letter Gr. To Duchartre was then assigned 

 all that remained as regards botany, and he wrote for it a con- 

 siderable number of articles. 



From this time it was tolerably easy to get paying work : he 

 contributed to the ' Encyclopedie du XlXme Siecle,' and two or 

 three similar serials, and undertook the whole management for 

 the two years it lived of the ' Revue botanique,' under the active 

 patronage of Benjamin Delessert, in whose library he was accus- 

 tomed to spend several hours daily. From the first he wrote his 

 papers in their final form ; and in his case long and frequent 

 polishing was not the secret of his success. 



In 1849 he was nominated Professor of Rural Botany to the 

 Institut Nationale Agronomique de Versailles, which only lasted 

 three years: during these three years Duchartre was working 

 hard but publishing little. He had to lead the way in France to 

 certain branches cf instruction, and also to make a garden after 

 his own plan. It was in this garden that he found out the value 

 of flowers of sulphur in the destruction of the Oidium. 



On the suppression of this institute without compensation, 

 Duchartre resumed his old way of life. He completed the 

 ' Manuel des Plantes ' which Herineq and Jacques began, and drew 

 up for the period 1854!-61 the Bibliographic Review o£ the 

 Botanical Society of France, that is to say, for its first eight 

 years. By this time he had produced more than forty papers of 

 more or less extent. Finally, in 1861, his difficulties were cleared 

 away by his election as a Member of the Academic des Sciences, 

 and two months afterwards as Professor of Botany in the 

 Sorbonne, a chair which he retained for twenty-six years and 

 fulfilled its duties with a rigorous exactitude. Winlst here he 

 drew up his ' Elemens de Botanique,' which passed through three 

 editions, amounting in number to 14,000 copies. At length 

 having, in 1886, attained the limit of age, he retired from the 

 chair; but this retirement did not stop his activity, as many 

 subsequent communications testify. 



He died rather suddenly, 5th November, 1894, aged 86. By his 

 express desire, no speeches were made over his grave. His election 

 as Foreign Member of this Society dates from 3rd May, 1877. 



James Allen Haukee was born about 1848 ; and, after leaving 

 school, was engaged for some years in commercial pursuits. 

 The charms of nature had, however, a greater attraction for 

 him than a business career ; and he ultimately decided to devote 

 himseltto scientific study and research. In the spring of 1881 he 

 occupied the British Association table in the Zoological Station 

 at JNaples, where he carried out some interesting investigations 

 on the Morphology of Annelids. 



In August 1881 he was appointed to the Chair of Natural 



History at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, and 



. held that post until his death. He was considered an able 



