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Though he had himself been admitted as an M.D. for ten 
years, he had paid little attention to the treatment of 
maladies, and hence, perhaps arose his scepticism on the 
subject of medical therapeutics. The alarming state of his 
health compelled him to apply to a physician, who thought 
that a southern climate would prove beneficial, and accord- 
ingly, in the month of January 1842, with a temperature at six 
degrees of cold by Reaumer's thermometer, he quitted Paris 
to seek the usually milder atmosphereof Montpellier. Unfortu- 
nately it so happened, that contrary to the customary order of 
things, the cold was still severer in the south than the north 
. of France, and the long journey, though not much complained 
of, must have been very trying to him in such weather. 
The affection and skill, however which awaited him at Mont- 
pellier, revived his hopes of recovery, and full of confidence in 
the mode of treatment pursued, and gratified by his nomina- 
tion as Member of the Parisian school of Pharmacy, he wrote 
home, assuring his friends that in a month's time, he felt 
Sure of being well And a few days sufficed to remove him 
from his friends, his family, and science ! 
M. B. Delessert always felt a deep interest in Guillemin, 
and received, with much emotion, the sad tidings of his 
decease. Long must it be ere any of his friends can 
forget him ! Upon me, his fellow labourer and colleague in 
the botanical museum of M. Delessert, me, whom for ten 
years he had admitted to his kindly intimacy, has this melan- 
choly office devolved of tracing the incidents of his life, and 
thus recording alike my regret for his death, and my sense of 
his worth. 
In the list of Guillemin’s publications, amounting to thirty, 
and chiefly consisting of detached memoirs which appeared 
in the larger periodical works, besides those mentioned already, 
the following are the most important. 
Iconés Lithographice Plantarum Australasie rariorum, 
in 4to with 20 plates. 
The text of the 29th and 31st numbers of Redouté’s Plantes 
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