114 AUGUSTIN-PYRAMUS DE CANDOLLE. 
was supposed would become King on attaining his majority, as his mother was 
only regent. Correa was made Minister; and his first act was to overthrow 
the Inquisition. But the Prince died just as he was coming of age, and Correa 
was left exposed to the hatred and jealousy of the priests. After awhile he 
obtained permission to go to England, where p lived in the society of the savants 
of which Sir Joseph Banks's house was the centre. Afterwards he removed to 
Paris, where he also lived amongst savants xe men of letters, and where he 
showed the most noble character when the seizure of Portugal by Bonaparte 
deprived a i allhis resources. He possessed the singular faculty of knowing 
ev rently without labour. It is only the people of the south who 
can thus tpa great facility with profound idleness. The latter prevent 
his publishing anything beyond small dissertations, quite below his talents ; but 
in conversation all his various pando and hie i ipgenions yews were charm- 
ingly exhibited. In these d lodgings, 
where they occasionally met t Co rrea, Although their celebrity was far ir abore 
his, and justly so, on account of their published works, yet Correa always got 
the advantage over them ; and it was by no means the least of the enjoyments 
of our sociable little dinners to see the sort of deference, and even fear, which 
Cuvier and Humboldt exhibited in the announcement of their opinions before 
Correa, who, with the grace and sly maliciousness of a cat, would at once expose 
their weak sides. Like them, he was familiar with all the historical and natural 
sciences, and he used his vast stores of knowledge with a severe logie and rare 
sagacity. He spent many-hours in my herbarium; where the subtle perspi- 
cacity which he brought to bear at a glance upon plants, often wholly new to 
him, taught me much of the art of observing, and especially of combining 
observations in botany. To such talents he joined a lofty soul anda heart — 
` devoted to friendship. It wasa great grief to me when, at over ei years of 
age, he quitted Europe to rejoin in Brazil the king who had persecuted him; 
but he forgot all his wrongs when his sovereign became ideis 
died when Ambassador to the United States." 
The following, of a somewhat later period, is abridged from De Can- 
dolle's account of the Socicté d'Arcueil :— 
* Its founder was the excellent and illustrious Berthollet, who then living in 
his ae residence at Arcueil, . . .. invited — once a month, a few young. 
composed of Biot, Thénard, Gay-Lussae, Descotils, Malus, Amédée Berthollet, 3 
and myself. Later, Bérard and Frangois de la Roche were admitted. [And Rs 
rago, Poisson, and Dulong, adds the editor of De Candolle's * Mémoires, s 
notes that the last volume of the * Mémoires d'Arcueil' was published in ie ] 
The association was devoted to the physical and ch ical sciences. Iv: 
> 
I contributed some articles upon this subject to the ‘Mémoires d'Arcueil — i 
namely, my * Note on the Cause of the Direction of Stems towards the e 
