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JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, &c 



Art. I. — Notice of the Life and Labors of De Candolle : ex- 

 tracted [and translated] from the Address delivered before the 

 Royal Botanical Society of Ratisbon, at its meeting on the 28th 

 of November, 1841, by the President, Prof, von Martius. 



Augustin Pyramus De Candolle, professor of botany at Ge- 

 neva, died on the 9th of September, 1841. De Candolle exerted 

 such an extensive and powerful influence upon the progress of 

 botany, that he is identified with the history of the science in the 

 present century. 



The man who impressed the seal of his genius on the natural 

 history, and especially on the botany of the last century, Lisxmus, 

 died at Upsal, on the 10th of January, 1778. On the 4th of Feb- 

 ruary of that same year, twenty five days after the departure of 

 Linnaeus, and on the same day upon which the death of Conrad 

 Celtis occurred, Aug. Pyramus De Candolle saw the light of day 

 at Geneva. Thus did the spirit of the times, which guides the 

 wisdom of man, transfer the role of the systematical classifier of 

 plants from Sweden to the verdant shores of the Leman, and place 

 it in the cradle of him, upon whose urn we now suspend the 

 flower-garland of grateful reverence. 



" Scilicet a tumulis, et qui periere propinquis, 

 Protinus ad vivos ora referre juvat." 



Ovid, Fast. II. 



De Candolle was without doubt the Linnaeus of our age. In 

 the right understanding of what he has accomplished, lies the true 



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