AUGUSTIN-PYRAMUS DE CANDOLLE. 309 
tion of the “‘ Organographie ” and of the “ Physiologie Végé- 
tale,” and — not to mention a hundred other botanical and 
sundry miscellaneous writings, of greater or smaller extent — 
of seven out of the present fifteen volumes of the “ Prodro- 
mus.” Only one botanist of the present century —and one 
happily who still survives —has accomplished an equal 
amount of work, and good work, in systematic botany. 
Our account has run on to such a length that we cannot touch 
upon De Candolle’s social and domestic life — of which the 
memoirs reveal pleasant glimpses, nor of his useful and hon- 
orable life as a Genevan and Swiss citizen. Nor can we now 
venture to gather interesting anecdotes from his notices of 
friends, visitors, pupils, and collaborators; nor notice his 
methods of working, and his capital arrangements for secur- 
ing and classifying details and economizing time. 
It is not for us to pronounce upon De Candolle’s relative 
rank in the hierarchy of naturalists. He incidentally once 
speaks of Brown and himself as rivals for the botanical 
sceptre. It is natural that they should be compared, or 
rather contrasted ; for they were the complements of each 
other in almost every respect. The fusion of the two would 
have made a perfect botanist. But De Candolle’s facility for 
generalization, zeal, and industry were as much above, as 
his depth of insight and analytical power were below Brown’s. 
The one longed, the other loathed, to bring forth all he knew. 
The editor compares De Candolle’s traits of character with 
those of Linnzeus, as delineated by Fabricius, and finds much 
resemblance. ut his impress upon the science, however 
broad and good, can hardly be compared with that of Lin- 
neus. 
