Martins, on the Life and Labors of De Candolle. 



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By his will of the 20th of February of the present year, [1841,] 

 he left his library and his collection of plants to his son, with the 

 condition that they should be open, as before, to the inspection of 

 botanists, as if in a public establishment, and that students should 

 have the use of them until the end of their term of study. The 

 filial devotion of the son has made the fulfillment of these con- 

 ditions a sacred duty. Many distinguished botanists have prom- 

 ised their aid for the completion of a work which transcends the 

 powers of any individual.* De Candolle bequeathed to the So- 

 ciety of Natural History of Geneva the sum of two thousand four 

 hundred francs, the interest of which is to be distributed in prizes 

 for botanical monographs. The right of publishing new editions 

 of his Theorie EUmentaire, and of his Organographies he left 

 to his friend and scholar Guilleminf in Paris ; the same right with 

 regard to the Flore Frangaise, and the Essai snr les Proprietes 

 Medicates des Plantes, he bequeathed to Prof. Dunal in Mont- 



pelier. 



This is the image, in its essential features, of one of the most 

 excellent men which the century has offered to xeceive the hon- 

 ors of science. In botany, that Candollea, the Australian shrub 

 to which Labillardiere has affixed his name, is not required to 

 keep him fresh in the memory of his botanical associates: he has 

 inscribed his own name on every page of the system of plants. 

 Neither does posterity require the monument which his native 

 city proposes to erect to his memory, nor the new "Hue De Can- 

 dolle" next to the botanical garden in Rochelle, in order to say 

 how great has been the influence of De Candolle in our time. 

 Exegit monumentum cere perennius. 



* [Vide Amer. Jour. Sci., Vol. xlii, p. 376.] 



t [This favorite pupil did not live even to commence the undertaking thus com- 

 mitted to his charae : he died early in the spring of 1842.— A. G.j 





