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EPISTOL^ JUSSI^O-LINN^ANJJ. 



NOTE. 



In communicating the manuscript of this article, comprising the epistolary correspondence of 

 Linnaeus with his great-uncle, Bernard de Jussieu, the Editor requested that the proofs should 

 be remitted to Paris for his revision, in order that they might be collated with the original docu- 

 ments, so as to insure the entire accuracy of the transcript. The lamented death of our dis- 

 tinguished Foreign Associate, which occurred about the time that the article was consigned to 

 the printer, has prevented this intention from being carried out. All that could be done, there- 

 fore, was sedulously to follow the manuscript, prepared with M. de Jussieu's accustomed neat- 

 ness and care. The few conjectural emendations that have been suggested are in all cases 

 inclosed in brackets. 



The annotations and remarks of the Editor possess the melancholy interest of having been 

 probably the last scientific production of the last of the Jussieus. 



Adrien de Jussieu, the grand-nephew of Bernard, the only son of Antoine Laurent de 

 Jussieu (author of the Genera Plantarum secundum Ordines Naturales disposita), himself a 

 botanist worthy of such a lineage, — a man admired and beloved by all who knew him, — died, 

 without male heirs, on the 29th of June, 1853, aged fifty-six years ; thus closing a line illus- 

 trious without a parallel in Botany for nearly a century and a half. 



A. GRAY. 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 31, 1853. 



