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ralist ; and consequently, we need not hesitate to avow, that 

 nothing is here to be found which bears the impress of the firm 

 and judicious mind of the legislator of botany. 



At the period of the Restoration, M. de Jussieu was one of 

 the council of the University, and of the Ecole de Medecine. 

 In the year 1815, the Council of the University was replaced 

 by that of D Instruction Publique, and M. de Jussieu was not 

 appointed to this council. In the year 1822, he was excluded 

 from U Ecole de Medecine, along with Vauquelin, Chaussier, 

 Pinel, Deyeux, Genettes, &c. In 1830, when the injustice 

 might otherwise have been repaired, most of these celebrated 

 men were dead ; and M. de Jussieu himself, now eighty-two 

 years of age, was too old to resume his place in the faculty. 

 In the year 1826, he resigned his chair in the museum, in favour 

 of his son M. Adrian de Jussieu ; and some years afterwards, 

 viz. in 1831, he had the happiness of seeing his son become a 

 member of the Academy. 



Labour, throughout his whole life, had ever Ijeen a delight- 

 fiil and necessary exercise to M. de Jussieu ; and the whole of 

 his time not occupied by his public duties was spent in his 

 study, meditating upon science and arranging his plants. He 

 used even to read in the streets. He was always very near- 

 sighted, a conformation for which his family has long been re- 

 markable, and, when yet far from being an aged man, he en- 

 tirely lost the use of one of his eyes, and, towards the close of 

 life, his sight was so weak, that he could neither write nor 

 examine any minute object. At this time, being no longer 

 able to work himself, he obtained the services of those who 

 gave him an account of the works of others ; and all those de- 

 licate attentions he had so long been in the habit of rendering 

 to his uncle Bernard after he became blind, were now repaid 

 to himself by one who was still more dear. Problems were 

 prepared to him which occupied his mind, constituted like 

 Bernard's, for meditation and combination. His information 

 was kept full to the level of the most recent discoveries ; and 

 if, among these discoveries, any thing bore upon his ideas of 

 characters and arrangement, his botanic instinct, which was 

 ever active, instantly seized upon it ; every thing was promptly 

 reduced to its most simple expression. M. de Jussieu then 



