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that his old friend had died as stated. Glaziou had no relatives, 

 except a married daughter, who was at the time in Cochinchina, 

 and no «* billet de faire part" was issued. 



A. Glaziou, as he invariably signed himself, a native of Brittanv, 

 was born, according to Mr. Poisson, in 1828. He qualified in 

 Paris as a Civil Engineer, and studied Botany at the same time 

 under Brongniart and Decaisne. In early life he went to Brazil, 

 where he spent 35 years. During his long residence in Brazil lie 

 was actively engaged in the botanical investigation of the country 

 and made enormous collections of dried plants, which he presented 

 to the principal botanical establishments of Europe. In the 

 introductory volume of the "Flora Brasiliensis " (19lM'») Dr. 



^ , Glaziou's collections 

 and journeys. Glaziou himself, " Bulletin de la Societe Botani.|iie 

 de France," vol. Hi., 1905, M Memnires," n. 3, in an Introduction 

 to a "Liste des Plantes du Bresil Central recueillies en 1K61-1SU5," 

 has published a very condensed history of his botanical explora- 

 tions in the States of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Esperito Santo, 

 Minas Geraes and Goyaz, from which it appears that he defrayed 

 the whole of the expenses out of the limited means of a public 

 functionary. Glaziou, it may be explained, was first Director of 

 the Passeio Publico— Public Promenade— of the city of Rio, and 

 subsequently Director of the Public Gardens and Forests of the 

 State, and he mentions that the Ministers, both of the Empire and 

 Republic, gave him full liberty and facilities for carrying out his 

 botanical work. Altogether he collected specimens of upwards of 

 12,000 species, numbered 1-22,770, with about a thousand of the 



numbers 'biased.' The specimens are excellent, and 200,000 is a 

 low estimate for the total number. The collection included 

 hundreds of previously undescribed species and numerous new 

 genera. Of each of the first -I, OCX > numbers only two or three speci- 

 mens were collected, but above that number a dozen or more were 

 collected, where possible. From the beginning the first set went 

 to the Editor, Dr. von Martius, of the "Flora Brasiliensis," and 

 after his death to Berlin, for the continuation of this great work, 

 under Dr. Eichler and Dr. Urban successively. The result from 

 this arrangement is that Nos. 1-3266 are in Martina's herbarium, 

 now at Brussels, and Nos. 3267-22770 are in the Berlin herbarium. 

 Kew possesses an almost complete set of the numbers above about 



be hoped that he had finished it and that the remaining and 

 greater part will be duly published. This is of the greatest 

 importance to the possessors of his plants, because they were 

 distributed under their numbers, but without localities and 

 without his field -notes. The list is systematically arranged 

 according to the sequence of Bentham and Hooker's "Genera 

 Plantarum," and it has appeared to the end of the Grassulaceae ; 

 the first part in November, 1905 ; the second part in July, 11*06, 

 after the author's decease. The species are separately numbered 

 under each order, so that it is easy to see the extent of GlaziouV 

 contributions in material to the " Flora Brasiliensis." Thus the 

 ViuJaceae are represented by 34 species ; Pohtgalaceae by 69 : 



