220 Notice of Prof. De Candolle. 
have had enough to do to examine and describe the plants they 
have been gathering, or that have been sent home to them. 
DeCandolle did not wait to ask how his labors were received 
abroad. In 1808 he became an inhabitant of Montpelier,* and 
took charge of the botanic garden there, which he raised to the 
highest perfection. For ten years from this time, he must have 
been beyond measure diligent. He thoroughly explored the 
south of France, gave courses of lectures at the Faculty of Med- 
ecine in Montpelier, published, in conjunction with Lamarck, a 
_ synopsis of the plants of the French flora, gave a catalogue of the 
plants in the botanic garden of Montpelier, published figures and 
descriptions of the rarer plants of France, several articles on geo- 
graphical and agricultural botany, in 1813 his Elementary The- 
ory of Botany,t and, in 1816, a second edition in octavo, of his 
“‘ Rissay on the Medical Properties of Plants.” 
- THe object of this work,{ is to ascertain the relations which 
subsist between the medical properties of plants, their external 
forms, and their natural classification. The dedication is curious: 
“'To the botanists who laid the foundation of the Theory of 
Natural Relations,—J. and G. Bauhin, Tournefort, Magnol, Ray, 
Morison, who. had an anticipation of it; Bernard de Jussieu, 
who proved it; Adanson, who developed it ; Antoine-Laurent de 
Jussieu, who subjected it to fixed laws; Desfontaines, who con- 
nected it with vegetable anatomy; Richard, who threw light 
upon it by the analysis of fruits; Robert Brown, who extended - 
it by the examination of the pieces of New Holland.” 
Considering the uniform justice and generosity of De Candolle, 
this dedication is remarkable for its injustice in omitting the name 
of Linnens, to whom, as he confesses in this very work,$ is due 
the first perfectly distinct enunciation of the principle which it 
is the object of the “ Essai” to prove—that plants of the same 
genus have the same properties; those of the same natural order, 
similar properties; and those of the same natural class, some 
analogy in their properties; and he admits that Jussieu adopts 
Sterner ag 
Fr : 
orie Elémentaire dela Botani Lee A d edition was 
published in 1819. ee 
+ Essai sur les Propriétés Medicales des Plantes, bel an leurs formes 
exterieures et leur ur classification naturelle. Paris. Crochar 
§ Essai, Introduction, p. 4. bath ae 
