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scientific fellow-labourers with whom these journeys had brought 

 him into frequent contact. A few days only before his death (on 

 the 26th of February) he had passed the evening among a body of 

 scientific friends, and manifested his usual vivacity ; on the morrow 

 he was attacked by a fever and died on the 4th of March, having 

 nearly completed his 80th year. He was a Member of the Academy 

 of Sciences of Berlin and of the Institute of France, as well as of 

 numerous scientific societies throughout the world ; and was elected 

 a Foreign Member of the Linnean Society in 1827 and of the Royal 

 Society in 1828. 



Achille Richard, Doctor of Medicine of the University of Paris, 

 Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of France, and 

 Professor of Botany to the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, was born 

 in that city on the 27th of April 1794. The son of a botanist of 

 high scientific eminence (distinguished in early life for his long and 

 laborious travels, and afterwards no less remarkable for the probity 

 of his character than for the minute analysis of his botanical ob- 

 servations), he naturally attached himself to the same pursuits and 

 became the suppUant of his father in his lectures at the Faculty of 

 Science. He commenced his botanical career in 1819 by the publi- 

 cation of his ' Nouveaux Eleoaens de Botanique et de Physiologic 

 Vegetale,' a work which speedily became extremely popular, passed 

 through many editions, and was translated into English by the late 

 Mr. MacGillivray in 1831. This was followed in 1823 by his ' Bo- 

 tanique Medicale, ou Histoire Naturelle et Medicale des Alimens, 

 des Poisons et des Medicamens tires du Regne Vegetal,' 2 vols. 

 8vo, and by numerous articles in the ' Dictionnaire de Medecine ; ' 

 the 'Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire Naturelle;' the 'Bulletin des 

 Sciences ; ' the ' Annales des Sciences Naturelles,' and other serial 

 and periodical w^orks. His earliest systematic memoir was a Mono- 

 graph of the genus Hydrocotyle, published at Brussels in 1819 ; and 

 the most important of his subsequent contributions to this depart- 

 ment are his Monograph of the Orchidece of the Isles of France and 

 Bourbon, in the 4th volume of the ' Memoires de la Societe d'Histoire 

 Naturelle de Paris,' and of the family oi Rubiacea in the 5th volume 

 of the same Transactions ; his contributions to the ' Florae Sene- 

 gambise Tentamen ' of Guillemin and Perrottet ; his ' Flora Novte 

 Zeelandite,' forming part of the Voyage of the Astrolabe ; and his 

 ' Tentamen Floree Abyssinicse,' 2 vols., Paris 1847. He was a man 

 of amiable disposition and agreeable manners, and contributed 

 greatly to the diffusion of sound botanical knowledge among the 



