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from the scventli volume, Alplionse de Candolie must be credited 

 with the writing of 46 orders in whole or part, and of the Smi- 

 laceee in the ' Monographes ' (the succeeding series to the ' Prodro- 

 mus,' of which seven volumes are extant). His ' La Phytographie, 

 au I'art de decrire les Plantes' (Paris, 1880), is a volume which 

 is singularly interestiog on account of the many by-ways of 

 botanic lore into which it strays and the charm of its style. lu 

 this he adverts to some of the points raised since the publication 

 of the ' Lois de JNTomenclature botanique,' which itself was the 

 re-issue of a draft set of rules submitted to the Botanic Congress 

 assembled in Paris in 1866 and came out the year following. 

 Opinion has differed as to some of the 'laws' here promulgated, 

 but the majority of the methods advised are excellent, and it 

 would be strange if they were not, as they may be held to embody 

 the experience of the de Candolles, father and son, for tJiree 

 quarters of a century. 



Por some years past Alphonse de Candolie had relinquished 

 actual work on plants owing to his sight showing traces of the 

 advance of age, but he retained to the last his vivid interest 

 in all questions which agitated botanists of the present day, and 

 his letters to within a very short period of his decease showed no 

 sign of feebleness. But towards the end of last year he acknow- 

 ledged, in corresj)ondence with his intimate Iriends, that without 

 any actual illness he had felt an actual step dow^nwards in 

 respect of strength ; still, with his hale old age, his family hoped 

 that the return of spring would enable him to shake off 

 these symptoms. Early this year he had an attack of that 

 mysterious and jDrostrating complaint, the influenza, which, fol- 

 lowed by acute pneumonia, terminated fatally on the 4th April, 

 1893. The news, which first arrived through a press agency, 

 was received the following evening in this room with every 

 feeling of profound regret. 



The honours conferred on A. de Candolie were numerous, every 

 civilized country seemed solicitious of enumerating him among 

 those whom it delighted to honour. Doctor of Geneva, Oxford, 

 Cambridge, Bale, Heidelberg, and Bonn, recipient of many foreign 

 orders, Poreign Member of Academies and Societies, a list of 

 which would require some pages of this record, we must not 

 omit to recall that he was elected Poreign Member of this Society 

 so far back as 1850, and thus for some years past has been our 

 Senior Poreign Member ; in 1888 he received the Linnean gold 

 medal, his grandson being present to receive it on his behalf. 



A full enumeration of the honours borne by the deceased, 

 and an equally full bibliography, has been published by Dr. Christ, 

 in the current number of the ' Bulletin de I'berbier Boissier,' 

 pp. 203-234. 



The Eev. Pobeet Collie was born in Aberdeenshire not far 

 from Balmoral, and was trained for the ministry of the Presby- 

 terian Church, ordained about 1856, and, after spending ten 



