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pore. July 9, 1863. ) ' 



Obituary Notice of Josejjh Decaisne, Member of the Institute 

 of France, Honorary Fellow. By Andrew Taylor. 



(Read 8th June 1882.) 



Joseph Decaisne died on the 8th February 1882, aged 

 73. He was a native of Brussels, the celebrated Charles 

 Morren being his playmate. Both were eager butterfly 

 hunters as children ; both, when men, became leaders in 

 horticulture, one in France, the other in Belgium. He 

 entered the Jardin des Plantes at the age of seventeen, and 

 gradually worked his way up till he succeeded Mirbel as 

 Professor de Culture and Director of the Garden. A work- 

 ing gardener in the department of the Museum in 1821, 

 M. Decaisne was elected President of the Academy of 

 Sciences in 1864, and a Member of the Koyal Society of 

 London in 1880. He was enrolled in our list in 1867.* 



Decaisne's attachment to his beloved Jardin des Plantes 

 was a life passion ; and there, of course, we look for the 

 results of his long studies. He managed this establish- 

 ment, not on the idea of its being a public recreation 

 ground for tired city holiday seekers, but rather as a 



* A portrait and notice of his labours are in Gardener's Chronicle, 1871, p. 

 377. 



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