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delightfully encouraging to the young stranger, and deeply 
did he feel the many marks of favour subsequently bestowed 
on him; throughout his life, and to the very close of his 
days, he took pleasure in speaking of his first arrival in 
Paris, and of the gratitude and veneration he owed to M. 
Delessert. 
Similar were the sentiments with which he regarded the 
learned Genevese Professor, whose instructions were never 
effaced from his mind, and whose name he never pronounced 
without adding to it some expression of the respect that 
he deemed due towards the savant, who had first introduced 
him to the world of science. M. De Candolle had possessed 
greater opportunities than any other person for estimating 
Guillemin's abilities, and he had long foreseen and declared 
that this youthful student would prove a highly distinguished 
Botanist. While the pupil felt a real affection for his in- 
structor, the master entertained similar sentiments towards 
his pupil; and, far from ever forgetting him, M. De Candolle, 
shortly before his death, recollected Guillemin, and reckon- 
ing that, in the course of nature, the latter would be long the 
survivor, he appointed him, in his will, the Editor of a new 
edition of his Elementary Theory of Botany, that remark- 
able work, which, at the period when it first appeared, 
opened a new path to science, and will always remain 
à monument of the genius and philosophical mind of its 
author. Gratefully did Guillemin accept the task; a 
last and valuable bequest of the man whose name will be 
known so long as Botany shall be studied. He felt it right 
to preserve the work entire—he would have deemed it pro- 
fanation to alter a word of the text; but it is likely that 
some notes would have been appended, with explanations 
of newly adopted botanical terms, and he had expressed 
his intention of prefixing a memoir of the life and writings 
of M. De Candolle, Who more fitted than the pupil to per- 
form such an office—where could the individual be found 
who would so justly appreciate the merits of his subject ?— 
But, alas! the opportunity was never granted! 
