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botanic garden of the place, and then he devoted 

 much time to teaching, and with great success. 

 Civil war was imminent, and the defeat at Waterloo 

 produced outbreaks at Montpellier. De Candolle 

 had been elected Rector of the University during 

 the Hundred Days, and was ordered to give up the 

 title. This he did, and prepared to leave the place. 

 He had sent his family to Geneva, and in travelling 

 himself to join them, by way of Nimes, he saw 

 traces of the horrible treatment the Protestants had 

 received. Subsequently the family went to Paris, 

 passing through the towns occupied by the allied 

 troops. Having time, De Candolle visited England, 

 and became the guest of Dr. Marcet, and was intro- 

 duced to the best of the scientific world. He met 

 and enjoyed the reticent Robert Brown, and went 

 to a sitting of the Royal Society, which he said 

 was dull. He was introduced to Hooker and Sir 

 James Smith, the proprietor of the Herbarium of 

 Linnaeus, which he very properly said was the basis 

 of botanical nomenclature. In 18 16 De Candolle 

 found himself settling down in his native town of 

 Geneva, where he was well received, and became 

 Professor of Natural History, and taught students of 

 both sexes, and began to establish a botanic garden 

 of some importance. There he was obliged to go 

 into local politics, and for years was a representative 

 of the town, doing good work for the poor, for 

 liberty by receiving and protecting political fugitives 

 and by insisting on the freedom of the press, which 

 was considerably hated in France under the re- 



