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and the final fall of Napoleon supervened. De Candolle’s life at 
Montpellier was troubled and his prospects precarious. He naturally 
turned to his native Geneva, where he had kept up intimate social re- 
lations ; and when he had ascertained that a place would be provided 
for him, he exchanged the comparatively ample emoluments of the 
chair at Montpellier, for the very humble salary of one at Geneva, 
encumbered with the duty of lecturing upon zoology as well as botany. 
Pending the change, he made a visit to England, in 1816, of which 
a detailed account is given, with reminiscences of the botanists and 
others whose personal acquaintance he then made. His account of 
Brown is expressive of the great respect he entertained for him, and 
that of Salisbury and of Lambert is amusing. 
Settled now at Geneva, at the good working age of thirty-eight, the 
narrative of his steadily-industrious and prosperous life, and of his happy 
surroundings, flows on for nearly 200 pages, down to the sad overthrow 
of his health by an overdose of iodine in 1836; his partial convales- 
cence and resumption of botanical work in 1837; and ends with the 
record of the death of his only brother, at the beginning of the year 
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out of the present fifteen volumes of the * Prodromus." : Only one 
botanist of the present century—and one, happily, who still survives 
— has accomplished an equal amount of work, and good work, in sys- 
tematie botany. 
It is not for us to pronounce on De Candolle's relative rank in the 
hierarchy of naturalists. He incidentally once speaks of Brown and 
himself as rivals for the botanical sceptre. It is natural that they 
should be compared, or rather contrasted ; for they were the comple- 
ments of each other in almost every respect. The fusion of the two 
would have made a perfect botanist. But De Candolle's facility for 
generalization, zeal, and industry were as much above, as his depth of 
insight and analytical power were below Brown’s. The one longed, 
the other loathed, to bring forth all he knew. ‘The editor compares 
