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Giving up the inheritance of the good medical practice 

 of his uncle, he went to Germany to study botany first 

 under Hofmeister at Heidelberg and then under de Bary 

 at Freiburg. He was a profound student and an ac- 

 complished artist, his drawings being the admiration and 

 envy of his fellow-students. Returning to France he 



ALEXIS MILLARDET. 



Discoverer of bordeaux mixture. (From a photograph, courtesy of 

 Dr. Erwin F. Smith.) 



took his doctorate in medicine and also in science. Im- 

 mediately thereafter, 1869, he was made assistant profes- 

 sor of botany in the University of Strassburg. The 

 breaking out of the Franco-Prussian War the next year 

 interrupted his work, and after serving in the army as 

 surgeon he became professor of botany at Nancy in 1872, 

 and finally professor of botany at Bordeaux in 1876, 



