462 Accmnt of the Life, Kc. of the late Mr. Vakl, [i)ec. I, 



In 1789 he was, by the abovemention- 

 erl focic'ty, apjxjinted its firll prol'elVor, 

 ill which employment, by his excellent 

 lectures, and his coadefccncling and in- 

 llruc'tive conveiiation, he formed many 

 young men, who now too foon deplore 

 the lofs of tlieir lather and friend. 



In 1799-1800 he made, at the expence 

 of Mverninent, another journey to Pans 

 ana Iloliuad. where he was received with 

 marks of eileem, only equalled by his me- 

 rits. From the Dirc6tory, then at the 

 head of the French government, be rc- 

 <eived, as an offering they thought due 

 to his celebrity, the fc.ii-ce work Plantes 

 du i^l{, which J\ilale(herbcs had intended 

 ior him already in the time of the mo- 

 narchy. Every public and private col- 

 lection was opened to him. The drawings 

 of Plmnier, the confiderable botanical 

 collections of VaillantT Touruefort, If- 

 jiard, Jofeph Juflicu, Commcrfon, Hal- 

 1 r, and others, there prcferved, were 

 ogain, wiili incrcafcd knowledge, criti- 

 cally examined by him; and, what is 

 itill more, :ill vied with each other to 

 ^■jrelent him with contributions towards 

 jncrealing of his own collection. The 

 lame was alio the cafe in Holland. On 

 liis return he was made proftflbr of bo- 

 tany at the botanical garden, the plan's 

 of which were claft'cd mider his fufieriu- 

 teudance, and a catalogue of them was 

 pi inted ; and through his extcnfivc ac- 

 quaintance, the inilitution obtained conli- 

 derable piefents of plants and fm:d< from 

 abroad. J'.ver fnice the death of Liu- 

 na;us he had been frnfible how mfich the 

 JSyltcin of Plants wanted an improvement, 

 whi'.h its father had taken in hand, but 

 Eot completed ; he was aware how many 

 fpc'cies were not defcribcd, or imperfect- 

 ly defcribcd, how many genera were to 

 Le formed or transformed ; how vague 

 tiie charail'lers were often found, how 

 inconltaiit the /ynoiiymcs; how little 

 thole had iccn, and how fuperiicially 

 tlity had oblcrved, that publilhcd tlie 

 works of Linnaeus. He therefore, at an 

 caiiy period, fonnedan idea of difpelling, 

 ifpolllblo, that chaos, which threatened 

 to obfcure the i'cieuce of botany. His 

 iittention, his refearches, his corrcfpoii- 

 tlcnce, his mcdit^aions, were iVmji that 

 time, efpecially bent upon thisolijeci, but 

 hardly would his liiiHiefly bavt allowed 

 him. to iiiake known the reiults, ha<i nut 

 friends, on wlKjJe judgment and tinccriry 

 Le could rely, not only encouruged hini 

 Ittit, bat even held it out to liini as a-^iity 

 ■whicii he owed tbem and tlie fcieuce; 

 «yiiiiL:i[Ucudy; aiUT iii^ i:#tiur.u inoisi liis 



lail journey he was conftantly employed 

 with increafed, and perhaps too perfc- 

 vering, application to put his cxtnuits, 

 annotations, and botanical collections, 

 in proper order for this purpofe. And 

 in 1804 he began the execution of this 

 plan, in the work Enuma-atio Flantariun, 

 of which, to the irreparable lofs of botany, 

 only ten had be^en printed before his 

 death; and with the fecond volume, which 

 was ready for the prefs, at the time of his 

 death, the v, ork will probably be difcon- 

 tinued. Shortly before that time he re- 

 ceived, in a moll flattering manner, from 

 the French Emprcfs Joibphine, a prefent 

 of the volumes that were printed of 

 Jarrlin dc la MalmaiJJ'on and Redouics 

 Liliavics. 



'I'hus devoting himfelf chiefly to bota- 

 ny, he did not however neglect the 

 other branches of natural hillory. His 

 le(^tures, his difterent treatifes on that 

 liibjeft, and his inflrudtive collections, 

 prove his knowledge of zo-ology to have 

 tieen very «xtcniivc< Part of Zoologia 

 Danica, Hill in MSS., is by him ; and of 

 the continuation oi Aj'cani Icones he alii) 

 fupplied a part. Cuvier received from him 

 many contributions to the Natural Hif- 

 tory of Quadrupedcs, and Fabricius t* 

 that of Infects. 



By herboiiiing himfelf from Vardo (the 

 extremity of Norway,) to Portugal, in fe- 

 voal ilhuidb of the Mediterranean, and 

 in Barbary, he had already colletied a 

 conliderablc herjjariuin. But this was 

 greatly augmented by the liberahty of 

 his friends. At an early period he re- 

 ceived plants from Linna-us hiinlelf. Mr. 

 KotboU gave him the duplicates of For- 

 ft-fil's collection. Mv. Marfeldt prefent- 

 ed him with his whole collection from the 

 Weft-[ndics. Afterwards l-.c received 

 Siberian plants from I'allas, Meyer, and 

 (.'oimt I'lichm ; Eaft-lndicm from Kijnig, 

 i{'jller, and Strom; South-Sea plants from 

 Forfier, through Fabricius ; JNorth- Ame- 

 rican from JMichau, Barton, Krohn ; 

 W'^efi-Indian from Rohr, Ryan, Weft, 

 Pheug. Plants from the Cape were 

 fent him by Thunberg and Bylow ; from 

 Morocco by Schowihoe ; from Madeira 

 by Rathke ; from Guinea by Thonniiig. 

 Wicn in England, he received much 

 fioni the fiatron (jf the fciences. Sir .T. 

 Banks. But till" greatoft augmentation 

 his coUertinn obtained was during his 

 laft journey, wlu-n it was enlarged with 

 about lour thoufand fperlcs, fur which 

 he was indebted tojuihcu, Lamarck, 

 Richard, Trouiu^ Royen, and many 

 Stiicrss Piofeflor C'^vunille* lent him 

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