TOURNEFORT. 5 1 



as professor. His end was sudden, for he met 

 with an accident in the street, and was killed by a 

 passing waggon. 



Tournefort s important work was the forming a 

 great amount of good knowledge about the species 

 of plants, and the arranging them in a systematic 

 order. But, as has been mentioned, he was a 

 founder of the science of the distribution of 

 plants. He appears to have laboured independently 

 of Ray, his English fellow-botanist, whose method 

 was the best of the two. There are twenty-two 

 classes in Tournefort's method, chiefly arranged, as 

 has been stated, by the form of the corolla, com- 

 paratively an unimportant structure. He dis- 

 tinguishes herbs and under-shrubs on the one 

 hand, from trees and shrubs on the other. His 

 system of classification was much used on the 

 Continent, until it was found to be less easy of 

 application than that of Linnaeus. 



The life of Ray, by Dr. Derham and Sir J. E. 

 Smith, is to be found in the " Memorials of John 

 Ray," in the publications of the Ray Society, 1846. 



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