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not appear to be anyone to step into his vaca 

 these enterprises to a successful issue. 



He leaves behind him the reputation of a highly 

 man, a courteous correspondent, and a botanist of high s _ 

 and accuracy. He was elected Foreigu Member May 6th, 1880 



Carl von Naegeli, the intelligence of whose death has so 

 recently reached us, was born on the 27th March, 1817, at 

 Kilcliberg, near Ziirich, the son of a country doctor, who after- 

 wards rose to some distinction in the republic as Councillor of 

 State. Carl was first sent to school at an establishment founded 

 partly by the care of his father ; then he proceeded to the 

 Grymuasium at Ziirich, and finally to the then newly-instituted 

 University of the place. Here he came under the influence of 

 Loreuz Oken, and received so strong an impulse towards the 

 study of natural history that his leanings to the study of medi- 

 cine, for which profession he was intended by his father, sensibly 

 cooled. At length, thanks to the persuasion of his accomplished 

 mother, his father's unwillingness was overcome and Carl was per- 

 mitted to engage on a botanical career ; accordingly he set out 

 for Geneva, to study under the elder De Candolle and Oswald 

 Heer, the first product of his study being on the Swiss species 

 and hybrids of the genus Cirsium, which was afterwards incor- 

 porated in the second edition of Koch's ' Synopsis.' This was his 

 inaugural dissertation for tlie degree of Doctor, and was dedi- 

 cated to his friend and teacher Heer. 



He married into a Zurich family in 1845, and in his wedding 

 tour visited this country, spending a considerable time in the 

 south-western counties, and there auiassing a large store of 

 material for his next work, ' Die neuen Algensysteme,' 1847. In 

 1847 Naegeli settled in Ziirich as Privatdocent in the TJuiversity, 

 also filling the post of professor of botany in the Veterinary 

 School, from which he Avas afterwards transferred to the High 

 School, where he did not long remain, for he accepted an 

 invitation to Freiburg-im-Breisgau, having declined a previous 

 ofier. He lived there from 1852 till 1855, when he took up the 

 position of professor at Zurich University; his greatly loved 

 mother died on the vei'y day of his induction. 



Two years later he became professor at Munich, and retained 

 this chair during the remainder of his working life. 



Soon after attaining the age of sixty he was much troubled by 

 attacks of giddiness and other nervous symptoms, which some- 

 times prostrated him. Au attack of iufluenza in 1889-90 greatly 

 enfeebled him ; but the t^unmier being spent among the moun- 

 tains he regained much of his accustomed strength, and a month 

 in the last winter passed iu the Riviera was wonderfully efficacious 

 in the apparent renewal of power ; but he had hardly returned 

 home when his death occurred with unexpected suddenness. 



It now remains to mention some of the more important works 



