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of which seventy-eight are included in the Royal Society's ' Catalogue 

 of Scientific Papers ' up to 1883. These embrace an extraordinary 

 variety of subjects, and it can truly be said that all are thoughtful 

 and worthy of serious attention. 



Personally Alphonse de Candolle was distinguished for courtesy 

 and liberality in thought and deed. Ever helpful, no one applied to 

 him in vain for aid. His vast stores of knowledge, his herbarium, 

 his library, and even his roof were at the service of all who could make 

 good use of them. The herbarium and library were left to his son 

 Casimir, under the conditions that they be open to botanists, and 

 that he conducts the publication of the ' Monographic Phanerogam - 

 arum ' (continuation of the Prodromus). He married in 1832, Made- 

 moiselle Jeanne Victoire Kunkler, who pre- deceased him, and by 

 whom he had two sons. His residence was Geneva during the 

 summer, and Valon, a few miles distant, in the winter, where he died 

 4lh April, 1893, in his eighty-seventh year. Amongst the numerous 

 honours conferred upon him was that of Correspondent of the Insti- 

 tute of France, of which body he was afterwards elected one of the 

 eight Foreign Associates in succession to Agassiz. He was a Foreign 

 Fellow of the Royal and Linnean Societies of London, and of most 

 European and American academies, a Doctor of Laws of Oxford and 

 Cambridge, and the recipient of various medals and orders, including 

 the gold medal of the Linnean Society, and last, but not least, the 

 Prussian order of " Pour le Merite." 



J. D. H 



PIERRE JOSEPH VAN BENEDEN was born at Malines on the 19th of 

 December, 1809, and died at Louvain on the 8th of January, 1894. 

 His long life is one record of indefatigable industry in the pursuit of 

 his favourite science, but otherwise was singularly uneventful. He 

 received a medical education, and almost immediately after taking 

 his degree, was, in 1831, appointed curator of the Natural History 

 Museum of the University of Louvain, and in 1836, Professor of 

 Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in the Catholic University 

 founded in the same town, after the suppression of the ancient State 

 University. He continued steadily to discharge the duties of this 

 office, combined with an uninterrupted course of scientific research, 

 until within a few days of his death, which resulted from a somewhat 

 sudden attack of bronchitis. He rarely quitted his home except for 

 the purpose of visiting museums, or with some other scientific object 

 in view. 



The jubilee of his professoriate was celebrated with great honour, 

 both at Louvain and at his native town, in 1886, seven years before 

 the termination of his career. 



His earliest scientific work was devoted to the anatomy and de- 



