114 GUILLAUME RONDELET. 



to visit a patient. His death happened on the 30th 

 July 1566, in the fifty-ninth year of his age. 



He was a man of very small stature, but robust 

 and active. At the age of twenty-five he gave up 

 the use of wine and spirits, from an apprehension 

 of gout ; but he compensated for his abstemiousness 

 in these articles by indulging his appetite for fruit 

 and pastry. Although he had acquired consider- 

 able sums of money in the practice of his profession, 

 he expended them in the gratification of his taste 

 for building, and in various acts of generosity ; so 

 that he left very little behind him. 



ULYSSES ALDROVANDI. 



One of the most celebrated naturalists of the six- 

 teenth century was Ulysses Aldrovandi, professor 

 at Bologna, who was born in that city in 1527, and 

 died on the 4th of May 1605. He was of a noble 

 family, and his fortune enabled him to travel exten- 

 sively, to collect materials for his books, and to em- 

 ploy artists in painting and engraving suitable illus- 

 trations. He carried, indeed, his liberality in this 

 respect so far, that, having expended his whole for- 

 tune in his enthusiastic pursuit of natural history, 

 he left nothing for the support of his old age, and 

 is commonly believed to have died in the hospital 

 of his native city. Cuvier, in a notice of his life 

 in the Biographic Universelle, regards this circum- 

 stance as doubtful ; imagining it improbable that 

 the senate of Bologna, to whom he bequeathed his 

 museum and manuscripts, and who laid out large 

 sums after his death in completing the publication 

 of his works, would have left him destitute during 



