THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



" per litora spargite museum, 



Naiades, et circiim vitreos considite fontes : 

 PoUice virgineo teneros lilc carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, diva;, replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o NympliEE Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Dea pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



Parthenii Eel. 



No. 74. JULY 1843. 



I. — Notice of the Life and Labours of DeCandolle : extracted 

 [and translated'\ from the Address delivered before the Royal 

 Botanical Society of Ratisbon, at its meeting on the 2Hth of 

 November 1841, by the President Prof, von Martius*. 



AUGUSTIN Pyramus DeCandolle, Professor of Botany at 

 Geneva, died on the 9th of September 1841. DeCandolle exerted 

 such an extensive and powerful influence upon the progi-ess of 

 botany, that he is identified mth the history of the science in the 

 present century. 



The man who impressed the seal of his genius on the natural 

 history, and especially on the botany of the last century, Linnseus, 

 died at Upsal on the 10th of January 1778. On the 4th of Fe- 

 bruary of that same year, twenty-five days after the departure of 

 Linnseus, and on the same day upon which the death of Conrad 

 Celtis occurred, Aug. Pyramus DeCandolle saw the light of day 

 at Geneva. Thus did the spirit of the times, Avhich guides the 

 wisdom of man, transfer the role of the systematical classifier of 

 plants from Sweden to the verdant shores of the Leman, and place 

 it in the cradle of him, upon whose urn we now suspend the 

 flower-garland of grateful reverence. 



" Scilicet a tumulis, et qui periere propinquis, 

 Protinus ad vivos ora referre juvat." 



Ovid, Fast. 11. 



* We give this memoir as it has appeared in Silliman's Journal for last 

 April, not doubting that it will greatly interest our readers. The initials 

 affixed we conclude to be those of Dr. Asa Gray. — Ed. Ann. Nat. Hist. 



■' Ann. ii^ Mag. N. Hist. Fb/. xii. B 



